We’re using Flask for one of our API’s and I was just wondering if anyone knew how to return a HTTP response 201? For errors such as 404 we can call: from flask import abort abort(404) But for 201 I get LookupError: no exception for 201 Do I need to create my own exception like … Read more
I have users table in my MySql database. This table has id, name and age fields. How can I delete some record by id? Now I use the following code: user = User.query.get(id) db.session.delete(user) db.session.commit() But I don’t want to make any query before delete operation. Is there any way to do this? I know, … Read more
I want to detect if the request came from the localhost:5000 or foo.herokuapp.com host and what path was requested. How do I get this information about a Flask request? 4 Answers 4
I saw that g will move from the request context to the app context in Flask 0.10, which made me confused about the intended use of g. My understanding (for Flask 0.9) is that: g lives in the request context, i.e., created afresh when the requests starts, and available until it ends g is intended … Read more
My flask application currently consists of a single test.py file with multiple routes and the main() route defined. Is there some way I could create a test2.py file that contains routes that were not handled in test.py? @app.route(‘/somepath’) def somehandler(): # Handler code here I am concerned that there are too many routes in test.py … Read more
I have read the official Flask documentation on Blueprints and even one or two blog posts on using them. I’ve even used them in my web app, but I don’t completely understand what they are or how they fit into my app as a whole. How is it similar to an instance of my app … Read more
I am using Flask and I return an XML file from a get request. How do I set the content type to xml ? e.g. @app.route(‘/ajax_ddl’) def ajax_ddl(): xml=”foo” header(“Content-type: text/xml”) return xml 7 Answers 7
I am pretty new to this whole MV* client-side framework frenzy. It doesn’t have to be AngularJS, but I picked it because it feels more natural to me than either Knockout, Ember or Backbone. Anyway what is the workflow like? Do people start with developing a client-side application in AngularJS and then hooking up the … Read more
I’m building an admin for Flask and SQLAlchemy, and I want to pass the HTML for the different inputs to my view using render_template. The templating framework seems to escape the HTML automatically, so all <“‘> characters are converted to HTML entities. How can I disable that so that the HTML renders correctly? 7 Answers … Read more
I know I can link Flask with Apache or other web servers. But, I was thinking of running Flask as a standalone server serving multiple clients simultaneously. Is this possible? Do I have to handle spawning multiple threads and managing them? 3 Answers 3
