rest_toolkit is a Python package which provides a very convenient way to build REST servers. It is build on top of Pyramid <http://www.pylonsproject.org/projects/pyramid/about>_, but you do not need to know much about Pyramid to use rest_toolkit.

Quick example

This is a minimal example which defines a Root resource with a GET view, and starts a simple HTTP server. If you run this example you can request http://localhost:8080/ and you will see a JSON response with a status message.

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from rest_toolkit import quick_serve from rest_toolkit import resource

@resource('/') class Root(object): def init(self, request): pass

@Root.GET() def show_root(root, request): return {'status': 'OK'}

if name == 'main': quick_serve()