Responses

BustAPI is flexible in what you can return from a view function. It attempts to smartly convert your return values into a valid HTTP response.

Return Types

Strings

Returning a plain string results in a text/html response with a 200 OK status.

@app.route("/")
def home():
    return "<h1>Hello</h1>"

Dictionaries & Lists

Returning a dictionary or a list will automatically serialize it to JSON and set the content-type to application/json.

@app.route("/api/user")
def user():
    return {"name": "Alice", "role": "admin"}

Tuples

You can return a tuple in the form (body, status) or (body, status, headers).

@app.route("/created")
def created():
    return {"id": 123}, 201, {"X-Custom-Header": "foo"}

The make_response Helper

For more control, wrap your content in a Response object.

from bustapi import make_response

@app.route("/xml")
def xml():
    resp = make_response("<data>value</data>")
    resp.headers['Content-Type'] = 'application/xml'
    return resp

Redirections & Errors

Use the helper functions redirect and abort.

from bustapi import redirect, abort

@app.route("/old")
def old():
    return redirect("/new")

@app.route("/protected")
def protected():
    if not is_authorized:
        abort(403, "You shall not pass!")