Examples¶
We demonstrate how to use the different components in the toolkit by providing a few sample Action Provider implementations. Each implementation leverages a different part of the toolkit to implement a Globus Automate-compatible Action Provider.
Flask Decorators¶
Flask is a popular framework for creating APIs. This toolkit provides a custom Flask Blueprint object that provides decorators for registering functions that will implement the operations for the Action Provider Interface and also perform most of the authentication and validation. All the developer needs to do is create a series of functions that will execute as the Action Provider’s endpoints and register the Blueprint with a Flask application.
Flask API Helpers¶
Another Flask targeted helper, this part of the toolkit provides a different way of creating an Action Provider which also implements most of the authentication and validation required. Users of this helper need only implement callback functions that will be used as the Action Provider routes.
ActionProvider Input Schema Definition¶
This example demonstrates the supported methods of defining an ActionProvider’s input schema. An input schema serves as a standardized definition for the input to an ActionProvider and provides input validation.
Framework Agnostic Tools¶
Finally, if you would like to use your own Python microservice framework, you can use the toolkit’s components individually. The Flask based components of the toolkit are good examples of how you can compose the individual components. We also provide an example implementation demonstrating how you can create routes implementing the Action Provider interface, how you can create a TokenChecker instance to validate tokens, how to create validation objects to validate incoming ActionRequests and more.