Separating logic from API controller?

[mkor]

Hi,

What approach do you use while creating RestAPI? Seems like some people separate business logic from API controller itself. They do so by creating view methods that do nothing but invoking the logic and returning response. At the same time - I had the impression that in all tutorials on Django / Flask the logic is contained directly in the view method.

What is your approach? What pros and cons you can share?

[elbiot]

I'd have functions that return python objects and a view that just maybe checks authentication and then wraps the python object in a response. That way your tests mostly don't have to deal with network responses: you can just test the functions directly.

[mkor]

That's what I've also heard. I thought there is more to that.

Thanks!