Forward a POST request to a GET endpoint

[Marius-Stroe]

Hello,

I'm using Flask-Restless==1.0.0b1 with Flask-SQLAlchemy. What I like about it is that it provides JSON API 1.0 formatting out of the box.

My setup is the following:

• I have a /v1/search that takes POST requests of multiple types
• for each request to /v1/search I need to call a 3rd party. So I'm taking the request's JSON and passing it through a flask-marshmallow for validation, make the 3rd party call, and save a bunch of results with Flask-SQLAlchemy.
• ideally, now I'd build a complex filtering flask-restless query and forward it to a model's endpoint. That way, I'd be getting the JSON API 1.0 formatting for free.

It would be something like the below. But the problem is that redirect doesn't seem to work with a REST api.

from flask import redirect

@app.route('/v1/search', methods=['POST'])
    def search():
        // do stuff
        return redirect('/v1/<some_model>', 'filter[objects]={...}')

Is it possible to do this kind of redirection? Thank you

PS: You may be asking why I don't query the <some_model> directly and return the results. It's because I don't get the uniform JSON API 1.0 formatting. I could use marshmallow-jsonapi and marshmallow-sqlalchemy, but look https://github.com/marshmallow-code/marshmallow-jsonapi/issues/3 it's a lot more work and not really known how they work together with flask-restless.

[Marius-Stroe]

I have ended up using flask-rest-jsonapi as it decouples the API json formatting from the models.