A software model that utilizes Object-oriented principles and RESTful architecture to manage and manipulate data in a relational manner. It enables developers to quickly and efficiently create scalable and flexible applications.
With RemoteObjects, you can easily define the resources in a RESTful API as RemoteObject classes and their properties. These objects can support the basic HTTP verbs to request and submit data to the API. Additionally, RemoteObjects provides programmable conversion between Python objects and your API’s JSON resource format, full and correct HTTP support through the httplib2 library (including caching and authentication), and delayed evaluation of objects to avoid unnecessary requests.
For example, you can build a simplified Twitter API library in the shell using RemoteObjects. By creating different RemoteObject subclasses for Tweeter, Tweet, and Timeline, you can easily get the data you want from Twitter API in Python.
RemoteObjects is designed primarily for web APIs. You can define each type of resource as a RemoteObject subclass and all the resource’s member data specified as remoteobjects.field.Field instances for lightweight typing. RemoteObjects works seamlessly with JSON REST APIs where resources are available at URLs as JSON entities (generally objects). The API server should support editing through POST and PUT requests and return appropriate HTTP status codes for errors.
The RemoteObjects module is not limited to a particular kind of API. It offers a flexible interface provided in DataObject, HttpObject, and PromiseObject layers that you can reuse, extend, and override to tailor objects to your specific target API.
Lastly, one of the great features of RemoteObjects is that it offers real objects with encapsulated behavior. This means that RemoteObject instances embody their own methods, providing clear and straightforward packaging of their behavior. This makes RemoteObjects a much more efficient tool for object-oriented programming in Python compared to manually processing with external functions.
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