use JSON for API and make short optional

app/api.py

+import imp
 from flask import jsonify, render_template
 from sqlite3 import connect
+from newurl import gen_short
 
 def api_get(request, url_scheme, s, sAPI, passwordProtected):
     "returns the decoumentation for the API"
@@ -14,27 +16,25 @@ def api_post(request, domain, sAPI, passwordProtected, password):
     "Handles all api requests"
     username = "error"
     try:
-        username = sAPI.loads(request.form['apikey'])
+        username = sAPI.loads(request.json['apikey'])
         print(username)
     except:
         pass
 
-    try:
-        short = request.form['short']
-    except:
-        return jsonify(
-            status="1",
-            message="short link is missing"
-        )
+    if "short" in request.json:
+        short = request.json['short']
+    else:
+        short = gen_short(domain[0])
     
     try:
-        longURL = request.form['long']
+        longURL = request.json['long']
     except:
         return jsonify(
             status="2",
             message="long url is missing"
         )
 
+    if "short" in request.json:
         domain_ = short.split("/")[0]
         if not domain_ in domain:
             return jsonify(
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ def api_post(request, domain, sAPI, passwordProtected, password):
     
     if passwordProtected:
         try:
-            pw = request.form["password"]
+            pw = request.json["password"]
             if( pw != password):
                 return jsonify(
                     status="5",
@@ -75,7 +75,8 @@ def api_post(request, domain, sAPI, passwordProtected, password):
             )
             return jsonify(
                 status="0",
-                message="ok"
+                message="ok",
+                url="https://{}/{}".format(domain[0], short)
             )
         else:
             return jsonify(

app/templates/apiDocs.html

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
     {% endif %}
 
     <h2>Make a request</h2>
-    <p>The usage of the API is very simple, you have to make a push request to {{domain}}/user/api which have to include the folowing Arguments:</p>
+    <p>The usage of the API is very simple, you have to make a POST request to {{domain}}/user/api which have to include the folowing Arguments as JSON Body:</p>
     <ul>
         <li>short: the short URL you want to get. example: {{domain}}/example</li>
         <li>long: the long URL you want to short</li>
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
         <li>password: this value contains the password, that is needed to short a link.</li>
         {% endif %}
     </ul>
-    <p>example API call with curl: <i>curl -d "{% if apikey %}apikey={{apikey}}&{% endif %}short={{domain}}/example&long=http://example.com" -X POST {{url_scheme}}://{{domain}}/user/api</i>
+    <p>Except long all parameters are optional.</p>
 
     <h2>Responses from Server</h2>
     <p>The response from the server is always made in json format it includes the following arguments:</p>