get / post by id works

application/db.py

@@ -33,6 +33,11 @@ class Person(Base):
         for fingerprint in self.fingerprints:
             prints.append(fingerprint.serialize())
         
+        if self.face is not None:
+            face = self.face.decode('utf-8')
+        else:
+            face = None
+
         data = {
         "person_id": self.person_id,
         "timestamp": self.timestamp,
@@ -40,7 +45,7 @@ class Person(Base):
         "lname": self.lname,
         "yob": self.yob,
         "gender": self.gender,
-        "face": self.face,
+        "face": face,
         "fingerprints": prints
         }
         return data
@@ -54,11 +59,15 @@ class Fingerprint(Base):
     fingerprint = Column('fingerprint', LargeBinary)
 
     def serialize(self):
+        if self.fingerprint is not None:
+            fp = self.fingerprint.decode('utf-8')
+        else:
+            fp = None
         data = {
             "person_id": self.person_id,
             "fingerprint_id": self.fingerprint_id,
             "timestamp": self.timestamp,
-            "fingerprint": self.fingerprint
+            "fingerprint": fp
         }
         return data
 

application/endpoints.py

@@ -5,12 +5,35 @@ import application.config as config
 import json
 from application.db import Session, Person, Fingerprint
 
+
 class PersonList(Resource):
     def post(self, id = None):
         """  """
         try:
-            data = ""
+            jsonData = flask.request.get_json(force=True)
-            return flask.make_response(flask.jsonify({'data': data}), 201)
+            personJSON = jsonData["person"]
+
+            session = Session()
+            fingerprintsObj = []
+            for fingerprint in personJSON["fingerprints"]:
+                fingerprint["fingerprint"] = fingerprint["fingerprint"].encode('utf-8')
+                fp = Fingerprint(**fingerprint) # ** Operator converts DICT/JSON to initializable 
+                fingerprintsObj.append(fp)  
+                session.add(fp)
+
+            personJSON["fingerprints"] = fingerprintsObj
+            personJSON["face"] = personJSON["face"].encode('utf-8')
+            person = Person(**personJSON)
+            session.add(person)
+            session.commit()
+
+            data = list(session.query(Person).filter_by(person_id=person.person_id))
+            arr = []
+            for x in data:
+                arr.append(x.serialize())
+
+            return flask.make_response(flask.jsonify({'data': arr}), 201)
+
         except Exception as e:
             print("error: -", e)
             return flask.make_response(flask.jsonify({'error': str(e)}), 400)
@@ -19,18 +42,14 @@ class PersonList(Resource):
         """  """
         try:
             session = Session()
-            fingerprint = Fingerprint(fingerprint_id=1)
+            if id is None:
-            person = Person(fname="hi", fingerprints=[fingerprint])
-            session.add(fingerprint)
-            session.add(person)
-            session.commit()
-
                 data = list(session.query(Person).all())
+            else:
+                data = list(session.query(Person).filter_by(person_id=id))
             arr = []
             for x in data:
                 arr.append(x.serialize())
 
-            print(arr)
             return flask.make_response(flask.jsonify({'data': arr}), 200)
         except Exception as e:
             print("error: -", e)

run.py

@@ -3,5 +3,3 @@ from application import app
 app.run(host="localhost",port='10024', debug=True)
 
 
-
-