Create RESTful API using Flask to serve search results

server/requirements.txt

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 toml==0.9.2
 requests==2.18.1
 whoosh==2.7.4
+flask==0.12.2

server/wac/rest.py

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+#!/usr/bin/python3
+
+from flask import Flask
+from flask import jsonify
+from whoosh.qparser import MultifieldParser
+from whoosh import index
+
+from . import api
+
+app = Flask(__name__)
+
+ix = index.open_dir("data")
+
+@app.route("/search/<query>")
+def search(query):
+    with ix.searcher() as searcher:
+        query = MultifieldParser(["title", "description"], ix.schema).parse(query)
+        results = searcher.search(query, limit=10)
+        return jsonify([dict(r) for r in results])
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    app.run()