LeaderboardBackend/backend.py

from flask import Flask, request
from flask_restful import Resource, Api
import sqlite3

app = Flask("LeaderAPI")
api = Api(app)

class LeaderAPI(Resource):

    def get(self):
        dbcon = sqlite3.connect("leaderboard.db")
        db = dbcon.cursor()
        leaderboard = db.execute("SELECT time_username,time_time FROM leaderboard ORDER BY time_time LIMIT 10").fetchall()
        db.close()
        dbcon.close()
        # dictionary of leaderboard is json, encoding using json.dumps results in double encoding with "" and return to browser as type string
        return list(leaderboard)

class TokenAPI(Resource):
    def get(self):
        print(request.remote_addr)

api.add_resource(LeaderAPI, "/")
api.add_resource(TokenAPI, "/token/")

if __name__ == "__main__":
    app.run(host="0.0.0.0", port=25540)