Flask-RESTful - Return custom Response format

Question

I have defined a custom Response format as per the Flask-RESTful documentation as follow.

app = Flask(__name__)
api = restful.Api(app)

@api.representation(\'app         


        

Answer 1

What representation is used is determined by the request, the Accept header mime type.

A request of application/octet-stream will be responded to by using your binary function.

If you need a specific response type from an API method, then you'll have to use flask.make_response() to return a 'pre-baked' response object:

def get(self):
    response = flask.make_response(something)
    response.headers['content-type'] = 'application/octet-stream'
    return response