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RESTful API for MongoDB built on Flask

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Madame
======

Madame is a dynamic RESTful API for MongoDB based on Flask.


:Author: Asdine El Hrychy
:Version: 0.1

Features
--------
- **REST-compliant**
- **HATEOAS**
- **Dynamic collections**
- **JSON Schemas separated from code**
- **JSON Validation**
- **Cache**
- **Versioning**
- **Read-only by default**

CRUD
----
Madame supports built-in CRUD operations.

======= ======
Action Method
======= ======
Create POST
Read GET
Update PATCH
Update* POST
Delete DELETE
======= ======

*Update method can use POST or PATCH, whether the user updates the entire document or not.

Schemas
-------
Madame keeps database schemas separated from code, and uses JSON to describe them.
To validate the data, it uses the strong schema validation library : `Validictory <https://github.com/sunlightlabs/validictory>`_. ::

{
"contacts": {
"title" : "Contacts",
"description" : "My contact list",
"schema" : {
"type" : "object",
"properties" : {
"firstname" : {
"type" : "string",
"minLength" : 1,
"maxLength" : 10
},
"lastname" : {
"type" : "string",
"minLength" : 1,
"maxLength" : 15,
"required" : true
},
"phone-number" : {
"type" : "string",
"format": "phone"
}
}
}
}
}


Dynamic
-------
You can add and delete new schemas without turning the servers off and use them immediatly. ::

>>> import requests, json

>>> data = {
"pets" :
{
"title": "Pets",
"description" : "My pets",
"schema" :
{
"type" : "object",
"properties" : {
"name" : {
"type" : "string",
"minLength" : 1,
"maxLength" : 15,
"required" : True
}
}
}
}
}
>>> headers = {'content-type': 'application/json'}
>>> r = requests.post('http://localhost:5000/', data=json.dumps(data), headers=headers)
>>> print r.status_code
201

You can then add new pets on your collection. ::

$ curl -i -d '{ "name" : "Betise" }' -H "Content-Type: application/json" http://localhost:5000/pets/
HTTP/1.0 201 CREATED
Content-Type: application/json
Content-Length: 263
ETag: "17c62e0fd3f85bf0f7db76fc2c90027f3309a83c"
Server: Werkzeug/0.8.3 Python/2.7.3
Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2013 15:36:00 GMT

{
"title": "Document created",
"links":
[
{
"methods": ["GET", "POST", "DELETE"],
"href": "http://localhost:5000/pets/",
"description": "You are here.",
"rel": "self",
"title": "Pets"
},
{
"href": "http://localhost:5000/pets/50e6f6e00ef3c414fcf66b45",
"rel": "item"
}
],
}


Filtering and sorting
---------------------
Madame uses MongoDB options for filtering and sorting. ::

$ curl http://localhost:5000/pets/?limit=1&skip=20

Installation
------------
::

$ pip install madame

Usage
-----
::

from madame import Madame

app = Madame()
app.run()


Versioning
----------
::

from madame import Madame

app = Madame('/v1')
app.run()


Flask and Ajax
--------------
Use Madame as an Ajax extension of your website.
As Madame is built on Flask, you can still use it as a normal website.
::

from madame import Madame
from flask import render_template

app = Madame('/ajax')

@app.route('/')
def index():
return render_template('index.html')

if __name__ == "__main__":
app.run()


Future
------
- Highly customizable
- Authentication
- Pagination
- ``GET /<collection>/<chosenIdentifier>``

and so on.

Feedback
--------
Any comment or advice would be highly appreciated!

Documentation
-------------
Complete documentation is available at `https://madame.readthedocs.org <https://madame.readthedocs.org>`_

License
-------
Madame is MIT licensed. See the `LICENSE <https://github.com/asdine/madame/blob/master/LICENSE>`_ for details.

Credits
-------
`Flask <http://flask.pocoo.org/>`_

`Pymongo <http://api.mongodb.org/python/current/>`_

`Validictory <https://github.com/sunlightlabs/validictory>`_

Authors
-------
Madame is developped by Asdine El Hrychy.
See the `AUTHORS <https://github.com/asdine/madame/blob/master/AUTHORS>`_ for details.

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