Quick start

As every other extension, you can initialize it with an application object:

from flask import Flask
from flask.ext.restplus import Api

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

of lazily with the factory pattern:

from flask import Flask
from flask.ext.restplus import Api

api = Api()

app = Flask(__name__)
api.init_app(api)

With Flask-Restplus, you only import the api instance to route and document your endpoints.

from flask import Flask
from flask.ext.restplus import Api, Resource, fields

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

@api.route('/somewhere')
class Somewhere(Resource):
    def get(self):
        return {}

    def post(self)
        api.abort(403)