RESTful actions

Flask-Commands follows the seven RESTful actions. They is one for each day of the week and they are forgivable 77 time over over.

• index

• show

• create

• store

• edit

• update

• destroy (or delete if you prefer — frankly, I would have called it nuke 😜)

If you’re new to these actions (or just need a refresher), here’s a quick review of what each one does and which HTTP method it uses.

There are other HTTP methods (PUT, PATCH, DELETE), but browsers traditionally only understand GETs and POSTs. I always think of the browser lifecycle as:

Get → Post → Redirect

You get the page, you post a form, and then you redirect to a new page to give feedback about what just happened.

The Seven RESTful Actions

Action	Method	URL Example	Behavior
index	GET	/users	Show all instances of a model
show	GET	/users/<int:user_id>	Show a single instance
create	GET	/users/create	Show the page to create a new instance
store	POST	/users/create	Create a new instance (then redirect)
edit	GET	/users/<int:user_id>/edit	Show the page to edit an instance
update	POST	/users/<int:user_id>/edit	Update an instance (then redirect)
destroy	POST	/users/<int:user_id>/delete	Delete an instance (then redirect)