from flask import Flask, request
from flask_restful import Resource, Api

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

todos = {}

class TodoSimple(Resource):
    """
    You can try this example as follow:
        $ curl http://localhost:5000/todo1 -d "data=Remember the milk" -X PUT
        $ curl http://localhost:5000/todo1
        {"todo1": "Remember the milk"}
        $ curl http://localhost:5000/todo2 -d "data=Change my breakpads" -X PUT
        $ curl http://localhost:5000/todo2
        {"todo2": "Change my breakpads"}

    Or from python if you have requests :
     >>> from requests import put, get
     >>> put('http://localhost:5000/todo1', data={'data': 'Remember the milk'}).json
     {u'todo1': u'Remember the milk'}
     >>> get('http://localhost:5000/todo1').json
     {u'todo1': u'Remember the milk'}
     >>> put('http://localhost:5000/todo2', data={'data': 'Change my breakpads'}).json
     {u'todo2': u'Change my breakpads'}
     >>> get('http://localhost:5000/todo2').json
     {u'todo2': u'Change my breakpads'}

    """
    def get(self, todo_id):
        return {todo_id: todos[todo_id]}

    def put(self, todo_id):
        todos[todo_id] = request.form['data']
        return {todo_id: todos[todo_id]}

api.add_resource(TodoSimple, '/<string:todo_id>')

if __name__ == '__main__':
    app.run(debug=False)