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Flask Demo - 05
Flask-RESTX is an extension of Flask that helps you quickly build RESTful APIs with features like input validation, API documentation, and request/response parsing — all with minimal boilerplate.
It’s a community-maintained fork of the now-inactive Flask-RESTPlus project.
Flask by itself is a lightweight web framework — it doesn’t give you:
- Automatic request parsing
- Swagger/OpenAPI documentation
- Input validation
- Namespacing for large APIs
Flask-RESTX adds all that.
Remember to update config.yaml with your credentials
Get sakila-data-02.sql and sakila-schema-01.sql from here.
https://github.com/gchandra10/sakila\_schema\_data\_mysql
Use MySQL Workbench Load sakila-schema-01.sql first followed by
sakila-data-02.sql
uv run python api_demo/flask_06_mysql_app.py
or
poetry run python api_demo/flask_06_mysql_app.py