Of web service implementation

Question

I am trying to implement a small, very flexible REST web service. I've done it in the past, but I didn't like the approach and I still don't like. How can one parse the query variables in a more elegant way ? Doing things like:

if query_variable in uri: do_things_based_on_query_variable

look fairly ugly to me, especially when all of those query variables map back to a database.

Can someone give an example of how an Web Service is implemented ? I am interested mostly in Python Web Services and how they're handled in the controller implementation.

Answer 1

Have you looked at Routes?