Prerequisites: Inventory Management App, APIs Overview, Web Requests Exercise
Previously we implemented the Inventory Management App using a local CSV file datastore. This allowed managers at different groceries stores to keep their own inventory of products on their own computers. But to improve consistency of record-keeping across stores, the store owner now wants managers at all stores to share the same inventory of products.
As a lead developer on your team, the professor has deployed a "Products API" to a public server available at https://nyu-info-2335-products-api-csv.herokuapp.com. He explains, each store can use its own "API Client" application to issue HTTP requests to the API, and the API will perform the corresponding operations on the shared CSV inventory of products.
Your objective is to write a command-line Python application that will allow users in any store to create, read, update, and destroy products from this shared inventory.
First, read the Products API's Documentation, which describes how to make requests to perform certain CRUD operations. You'll see some curl references in there, but that is a command-line utility, and there isn't actually any Python code in there. The parts of the documentation you should focus on for each operation are: "what kind of request do I need to make?" and "which URL do I make the request to?"
After consulting the docs, issue an appropriate HTTP request in Python to satisfy each of the challenges below.
API Documentation: https://github.com/prof-rossetti/products-api-flask/tree/csv#list-products
Request information about all products, then loop through and print the "id" and "name" of each.
API Documentation: https://github.com/prof-rossetti/products-api-flask/tree/csv#show-product
Choose a product identifier from the list, then request information about that specific product, then print all the product's attributes.
API Documentation: https://github.com/prof-rossetti/products-api-flask/tree/csv#destroy-product
Request to delete the previously-selected product from the inventory.
API Documentation: https://github.com/prof-rossetti/products-api-flask/tree/csv#create-product
Request to create a new product in the inventory.
API Documentation: https://github.com/prof-rossetti/products-api-flask/tree/csv#update-product
Request to update the new product you recently created.