During my past development projects, I built a lot of HTTP APIs using various langages (TypeScript, JavaScript, Python) and frameworks (fastify, FastAPI, flask, express). One thing I've noticed is that each of those frameworks have their own way of shaping HTTP error responses. This is actually not a big deal considering that most clients (i.e: HTTP clients) do not really rely on strict structure for such errors.
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Testing Python code integration with an Azure Eventhub
On one of my project I needed to create a simple API allowing clients to publish some messages into an Azure EventHub. Because authentication is ensured by a JWT we could not rely on our clients to directly publish messages to the Eventhub (and by the way I prefer abstracting this away through a HTTP API).
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Recently, while trying to debug some of my
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I recently stumbled upon a code from one of my coworker who is rather new to Python. He is coming from a Java/Scala background and used python's
read morepropertydecorator to mimic Java Getters/Setters. Let's see why you should not do this.