How Slumber Works Behind the Scenes

Behind the scenes slumber is really 2 things. It is a translator from python code into urls, and it is a serializer/deserializer helper.

Python to Url Translation

The Url Translation portion of slumber is fairly simple but powerful. It is basically a list of url fragments that get joined together.

In the call:

>>> api.note.get()

Slumber translates this by adding the url value for api (say http://slumber.in/api/v1/) with the url value for note. The url value for an attribute is equal to it’s name, so in this case slumber essentially does "http://slumber.in/api/v1/" + "note",

The same holds true when you pass in an ID to a resource. It just adds another segment to the url list.

This means that in this call:

>>> api.note(1).get()

Slumber translates it to:

>>> "http://slumber.in/api/v1/" + "note" + "/" + str(1)

Nested Resources follow the same principle.

The other part of an url that Slumber translates is kwargs to get(), post(), put(), delete() into query string params. This again is a fairly simple operation which then gets added to the end of the url.

The Final portion of Slumber’s Python to HTTP is that the first arg passed to each of the HTTP functions is serialized, and then passed into the HTTP request as the body of the request.

(De)Serialization

Slumber also has a built in Serialization framework. This is a fairly simple wrapper around (simple)json and/or pyyaml that controls setting the correct content-type on a request, and will automatically serialize or deserialize any incoming or outgoing request body.

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