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Python Build a Social Network with Flask How to Win Friends Handling 404s

Tyler Noblett
Tyler Noblett
4,951 Points

<class 'peewee.TextField'> in Flask Social Network course

I'm getting an error in the flask social network course in which all of my posts (from any user) return "<class 'peewee.TextField'>". I've searched through all of my files and can't seem to find where this is coming from, but am wondering if something if off with my database? I'm going to include the core files, but let me know if I should add any others.

app.py

from flask import (Flask, g, render_template, flash, redirect, url_for,
                  abort)
from flask.ext.bcrypt import check_password_hash
from flask.ext.login import (LoginManager, login_user, logout_user,
                             login_required, current_user)

import forms
import models

DEBUG = True
PORT = 8000
HOST = '0.0.0.0'

app = Flask(__name__)
app.secret_key = 'auoesh.bouoastuh.43,uoausoehuosth3ououea.auoub!'

login_manager = LoginManager()
login_manager.init_app(app)
login_manager.login_view = 'login'

@login_manager.user_loader
def load_user(userid):
    try:
        return models.User.get(models.User.id == userid)
    except models.DoesNotExist:
        return None


@app.before_request
def before_request():
    """Connect to the database before each request."""
    g.db = models.DATABASE
    g.db.connect()
    g.user = current_user


@app.after_request
def after_request(response):
    """Close the database connection after each request."""
    g.db.close()
    return response


@app.route('/register', methods=('GET', 'POST'))
def register():
    form = forms.RegisterForm()
    if form.validate_on_submit():
        flash("Yay, you registered!", "success")
        models.User.create_user(
            username=form.username.data,
            email=form.email.data,
            password=form.password.data
        )
        return redirect(url_for('index'))
    return render_template('register.html', form=form)


@app.route('/login', methods=('GET', 'POST'))
def login():
    form = forms.LoginForm()
    if form.validate_on_submit():
        try:
            user = models.User.get(models.User.email == form.email.data)
        except models.DoesNotExist:
            flash("Your email or password doesn't match!", "error")
        else:
            if check_password_hash(user.password, form.password.data):
                login_user(user)
                flash("You've been logged in!", "success")
                return redirect(url_for('index'))
            else:
                flash("Your email or password doesn't match!", "error")
    return render_template('login.html', form=form)


@app.route('/logout')
@login_required
def logout():
    logout_user()
    flash("You've been logged out! Come back soon!", "success")
    return redirect(url_for('index'))

@app.route('/new_post', methods=('GET', 'POST'))
@login_required
def post():
    form = forms.PostForm()
    if form.validate_on_submit():
        models.Post.create(user=g.user._get_current_object(),
                           content=form.content.data.strip())
        flash("Message Posted! Thanks!", "success")
        return redirect(url_for('index'))
    return render_template('post.html', form=form)


@app.route('/')
def index():
    stream = models.Post.select().limit(100)
    return render_template('stream.html', stream=stream)

@app.route('/stream')
@app.route('/stream/<username>')
def stream(username=None):
    template= 'stream.html'
    if username and username != current_user.username:
        try:
            user = models.User.select().where(
                models.User.username**username).get()
        except models.DoesNotExist:
            abort(404)
        else:
            stream = user.posts.limit(100)
    else:
        stream = current_user.get_stream().limit(100)
        user = current_user
    if username:
        template = 'user_stream.html'
    return render_template(template, stream=stream, user=user)


@app.route('/post/<int:post_id>')
def view_post(post_id):
    posts = models.Post.select().where(models.Post.id == post_id)
    if posts.count() == 0:
        abort(404)
    return render_template('stream.html', stream=posts)


@app.route('/follow/<username>')
@login_required
def follow(username):
    try:
        to_user = models.User.get(models.User.username**username)
    except models.DoesNotExist:
        abort(404)
    else:
        try:
            models.Relationship.create(
                from_user=g.user._get_current_object(),
                to_user=to_user
            )
        except models.IntegrityError:
            pass
        else:
            flash("you're now following {}!".format(to_user.username), "success")
    return redirect(url_for('stream', username=to_user.username))

@app.route('/unfollow/<username>')
@login_required
def unfollow(username):
    try:
        to_user = models.User.get(models.User.username**username)
    except models.DoesNotExist:
        abort(404)
    else:
        try:
            models.Relationship.get(
                from_user=g.user._get_current_object(),
                to_user=to_user
            ).delete_instance()
        except models.IntegrityError:
            pass
        else:
            flash("you've  unfollowed {}. Hope you don't regret it!".format(to_user.username), "success")
    return redirect(url_for('stream', username=to_user.username))

@app.errorhandler(404)
def not_found(error):
    return render_template('404.html'), 404

if __name__ == '__main__':
    models.initialize()
    try:
        models.User.create_user(
            username='kennethlove',
            email='kenneth@teamtreehouse.com',
            password='password',
            admin=True
        )
    except ValueError:
        pass
    app.run(debug=DEBUG, host=HOST, port=PORT)

models.py

import datetime

from flask.ext.bcrypt import generate_password_hash
from flask.ext.login import UserMixin
from peewee import *

DATABASE = SqliteDatabase('social.db')

class User(UserMixin, Model):
    username = CharField(unique=True)
    email = CharField(unique=True)
    password = CharField(max_length=100)
    joined_at = DateTimeField(default=datetime.datetime.now)
    is_admin = BooleanField(default=False)

    class Meta:
        database = DATABASE
        order_by = ('-joined_at',)


    def get_posts(self):
        return Post.select().where(Post.user == self)

    def get_stream(self):
        return Post.select().where(
            (Post.user << self.following()) |
            (Post.user == self)
        ) 

    def following(self):
        """The Users that we are following"""
        return (
            User.select().join(
                Relationship, on = Relationship.to_user
            ).where(
                Relationship.from_user == self
            )
        )

    def followers(self):
        """Get Users following the current user"""
        return (
            User.select().join(
                Relationship, on = Relationship.from_user
            ).where(
                Relationship.to_user == self
            )
        )    

    @classmethod
    def create_user(cls, username, email, password, admin=False):
        try:
            with DATABASE.transaction():
                cls.create(
                    username=username,
                    email=email,
                    password=generate_password_hash(password),
                    is_admin=admin)
        except IntegrityError:
            raise ValueError("User already exists")    

class Post(Model):
    timestamp = DateTimeField(default = datetime.datetime.now)
    user = ForeignKeyField(
        rel_model = User,
        related_name='posts'
    )
    content = TextField

    class Meta:
        database = DATABASE
        order_by = ('-timestamp',)

class Relationship(Model):
    from_user = ForeignKeyField(User, related_name='relationships')
    to_user = ForeignKeyField(User, related_name='related_to')

    class Meta:
        database = DATABASE
        indexes = (
            (('from_user', 'to_user'), True)
        )    

def initialize():
    DATABASE.connect()
    DATABASE.create_tables([User, Post, Relationship], safe=True)
    DATABASE.close()

forms.py

from flask_wtf import Form
from wtforms import StringField, PasswordField, TextAreaField
from wtforms.validators import (DataRequired, Regexp, ValidationError, Email,
                               Length, EqualTo)

from models import User


def name_exists(form, field):
    if User.select().where(User.username == field.data).exists():
        raise ValidationError('User with that name already exists.')


def email_exists(form, field):
    if User.select().where(User.email == field.data).exists():
        raise ValidationError('User with that email already exists.')


class RegisterForm(Form):
    username = StringField(
        'Username',
        validators=[
            DataRequired(),
            Regexp(
                r'^[a-zA-Z0-9_]+$',
                message=("Username should be one word, letters, "
                         "numbers, and underscores only.")
            ),
            name_exists
        ])
    email = StringField(
        'Email',
        validators=[
            DataRequired(), 
            Email(),
            email_exists
        ])
    password = PasswordField(
        'Password',
        validators=[
            DataRequired(),
            Length(min=2),
            EqualTo('password2', message='Passwords must match')
        ])
    password2 = PasswordField(
        'Confirm Password',
        validators=[DataRequired()]
    )


class LoginForm(Form):
    email = StringField('Email', validators=[DataRequired(), Email()])
    password = PasswordField('Password', validators=[DataRequired()])

class PostForm(Form):
    content = TextAreaField("What's up?", validators=[DataRequired()])

layout.html

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html class="no-js">
    <head>
        <meta charset="utf-8">
        <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge,chrome=1">
        <title>{% block title %}TwoCans{% endblock %}</title>
        <meta name="description" content="">
        <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
        <link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Varela+Round' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
        <link rel="stylesheet" href="/static/css/normalize.min.css">
        <link rel="stylesheet" href="/static/css/main.css">

        <!--[if lt IE 9]>
            <script src="//html5shiv.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/html5.js"></script>
            <script>window.html5 || document.write('<script src="/static/js/vendor/html5shiv.js"><\/script>')</script>
        <![endif]-->
    </head>
    <body>

        <header>

          <div class="row">

            <div class="grid-33">

              <a href="{{ url_for('index') }}" class="icon-logo"></a>

            </div>

            <div class="grid-33">

                <!-- Say Hi -->
                <h1>Hello{% if current_user.is_authenticated %} {{ current_user.username }}{% endif %}</h1>

            </div>

            <div class="grid-33">

                <!-- Log in/Log out -->
                {% if current_user.is_authenticated %}
                <a href ="{{ url_for('logout') }}" class = "icon-power" title = "Log out"></a>
                {% else %} 
                <a href ="{{ url_for('login') }}" class = "icon-power" title = "Log in"></a>
                <a href ="{{ url_for('register') }}" class = "icon-profile" title = "Register"></a>
                {% endif %}

            </div>

          </div>

        </header>

        <!-- Flash messages -->
        {% with messages = get_flashed_messages(with_categories = True) %}
            {% if messages %}
                {% for category, message in messages %}
                    <div class="notification {{category}}">{{ message }}</div>
                {% endfor %}
            {% endif %}
        {% endwith %} 

        <div class="row">

          <div class="main">

            <nav>

              <a href="{{ url_for('index') }}">All</a>

                {% if current_user.is_authenticated() %}
                <a href="{{ url_for ('stream', username=current_user.username) }}">Following</a>
                <a href="{{ url_for('post') }}" class="new">Create New Post</a>
                {% endif %}

            </nav>

            {% block content %}{% endblock %}

          </div>

        </div>

        <footer>

          <div class="row">

            <p>A Social App built with Flask<br>by <a href="http://teamtreehouse.com">Treehouse</a></p>

          </div>

        </footer>

        <script src="/static/js/vendor/disTime.min.js"></script>
        <script src="/static/js/main.js"></script>

    </body>
</html>