I needed to quickly test a few things today using Flask, Flask-Restplus and Flask-Marshmallow. I created the following boilerplate code that can easily be modified for further quick tests.

from flask import Flask, Blueprint, url_for, jsonify
from flask_restplus import Api, Resource
from flask_marshmallow import Marshmallow, base_fields
from marshmallow import post_dump

# Setup Flask app

url_prefix = '/api/v4'
doc = '/apidoc/'
app = Flask(__name__)
app.config['JSON_SORT_KEYS'] = False
ma = Marshmallow()
blueprint = Blueprint('api', __name__, url_prefix=url_prefix)
api = Api(blueprint, doc=doc, version='3.0')

# Models

class Bunch(dict):
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        super(Bunch, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
        self.__dict__ = self

class Author(Bunch):
    pass

def mock_author():
    author = Author(id=123, name='Fred Douglass')
    return author

def mock_author_list():
    a1 = Author(id=1, name="Alice")
    a2 = Author(id=2, name="Bob")
    a3 = Author(id=3, name="Carol")
    return [a1, a2, a3]

# Schemas

class AuthorSchema(ma.Schema):
    id = base_fields.Int(dump_only=True)

    absolute_url = ma.AbsoluteURLFor('api.author', id='<id>')

    links = ma.Hyperlinks({
        'self': ma.URLFor('api.author', id='<id>'),
        'collection': ma.URLFor('api.authors')
    })

    @post_dump(pass_many=True)
    def wrap(self, data, many):
        key = 'authors' if many else 'author'
        return {
            key: data
        }

    class Meta:
        fields = ('id', 'name', 'links', 'absolute_url')
        ordered = True

# Setup operations

ns = api.namespace('authors', description='desc')
ep_1 = 'authors'
ep_2 = 'author'

@ns.route('/', endpoint=ep_1)
class AuthorsCollection(Resource):
    def get(self):
        print " ---- GET - result=" + url_for('api.' + ep_1)
        s = AuthorSchema(many=True)
        result = s.dump(mock_author_list())
        return jsonify(result.data)

    def post(self):
        print " ---- POST - result=" + url_for('api.' + ep_1)
        return None, 201

@ns.route('/<int:id>', endpoint=ep_2)
class AuthorsDetail(Resource):
    def get(self, id):
        print " ---- GET - result=" + url_for('api.' + ep_2, id=id)
        print " ---- GET - result=" + url_for('api.' + ep_1)
        s = AuthorSchema()
        result = s.dump(mock_author())
        return jsonify(result.data)

    def put(self, id):
        print " ---- PUT - result=" + url_for('api.' + ep_2, id=id)
        print " ---- PUT - result=" + url_for('api.' + ep_1)
        return None, 204

    def delete(self, id):
        print " ---- DELETE - result=" + url_for('api.' + ep_2, id=id)
        print " ---- DELETE - result=" + url_for('api.' + ep_1)
        return None, 204

app.register_blueprint(blueprint)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    print '>>>>> Starting server at http://localhost:8080{url_prefix}{doc}'.\
        format(url_prefix=url_prefix, doc=doc)
    app.run(port=8080, debug=True)