Self link for current resource in Rest API - Interactive Code Practice

Practice - 5 Tasks

1fill in blank

easy

Complete the code to add a self link to the resource.

Rest API

self_link = request.url + [1]

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A"/link"

B"/current"

C"/self"

D"/resource"

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Common Mistakes

Using a wrong path like '/link' or '/resource' which does not represent the self link.

The self link is usually a path like /self appended to the current URL.

2fill in blank

medium

Complete the code to return the self link in the JSON response.

Rest API

return jsonify({"self": [1])

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Arequest.base_url

Brequest.url

Crequest.path

Drequest.host_url

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Common Mistakes

Using request.base_url which excludes query parameters.

Using request.host_url which is only the domain.

The request.url contains the full URL of the current resource, which is used as the self link.

3fill in blank

hard

Fix the error in the code to correctly generate the self link.

Rest API

self_link = f"[1]/self"

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Arequest.path

Brequest.url

Crequest.host_url

Drequest.base_url

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Common Mistakes

Using request.url which may cause duplicated query parameters.

Using request.path which is only the path, missing domain.

The request.base_url gives the URL without query parameters, suitable for appending paths like '/self'.

4fill in blank

hard

Fill both blanks to create a dictionary with the self link and resource ID.

Rest API

response = {"self": [1], "id": [2]

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Arequest.url

Bresource_id

Drequest.path

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Common Mistakes

Confusing request.path with the full URL.

Using wrong variable names for the resource ID.

The self link uses request.url and the resource ID is stored in resource_id.

5fill in blank

hard

Fill all three blanks to build a JSON response with self link, resource ID, and type.

Rest API

response = {"self": [1], "id": [2], "type": [3]

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Arequest.url

Bresource_id

C"example"

Drequest.path

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Common Mistakes

Using request.path instead of full URL for self link.

Forgetting to put quotes around the type string.

The self link is request.url, the ID is resource_id, and the type is a string like "example".