The REST API application

To enable access to a database of NBA Arenas, US States, US Counties, and US Congressional Districts, we will build a REST API. The API will allow for queries about tables and about specific table resources, that is, rows of data. It will also allow for geospatial queries.

Application components

The components of this application include:

• The database, created in Chapter 11,  Flask and GeoAlchemy2, which contains the tables for NBA Arenas, US States, US Counties, and US Congressional Districts
• Theapp.py file, which initiates the application when called by a Python executable
• Theapplication folder, which contains the application code and folders
• The__init__.py file, which makes the application folder into a module, defines the Flask object and connects to the database
• Theviews.py file, which defines the API endpoints, the view functions, and the return responses
• Themodels.py file, which defines the database table models as Python classes that subclass from SQLAlchemy
• The forms...