#!/usr/bin/env python3
'''
    example_flask_app.py
    Jeff Ondich, 22 April 2016

    A slightly more complicated Flask sample app than the
    "hello world" app found at http://flask.pocoo.org/.
'''
import flask
import json

app = flask.Flask(__name__)

@app.route('/')
def hello():
    return 'Hello, Citizen of CS257.'

@app.route('/authors/<author>')
def get_author(author):
    ''' What a dopey function! But it illustrates a Flask route with a parameter. '''
    if author == 'Twain':
        author_dictionary = {'last_name':'Twain', 'first_name':'Mark'}
    else:
        author_dictionary = {'last_name':'McBozo', 'first_name':'Bozo'}
    return json.dumps(author_dictionary)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    app.run(host='localhost', port=5000)