Calling flask restful API resource methods

Question

I\'m creating an API with Flask that is being used for a mobile platform, but I also want the application itself to digest the API in order to render web content. I\'m wondering

Answer 1

I managed to achieve this, sometimes API's get ugly, in my case, I need to recursively call the function as the application has a extremely recursive nature (a tree). Recursive functions itself are quite expensive, recursive HTTP requests would be a world of memory and cpu waste.

So here's the snippet, check the third for loop:

class IntentAPI(Resource):
    def get(self, id):
        patterns = [pattern.dict() for pattern in Pattern.query.filter(Pattern.intent_id == id)]
        responses = [response.dict() for response in Response.query.filter(Response.intent_id == id)]
        return jsonify ( { 'patterns' : patterns, 'responses' : responses } )

    def delete(self, id):
        for pattern in Pattern.query.filter(Pattern.intent_id == id):
            db.session.delete(pattern)

        for response in Response.query.filter(Response.intent_id == id):
            db.session.delete(response)

        for intent in Intent.query.filter(Intent.context == Intent.query.get(id).set_context):
            self.delete(intent.id) #or IntentAPI.delete(self, intent.id)

        db.session.delete(Intent.query.get(id))
        db.session.commit()
        return jsonify( { 'result': True } )