For those of you getting the non-200 response, if you look at at the User class in models.py, you'll notice that User() has a class method, new(), that takes two arguments: email and password. You'll just need to get the email and password data from the forms and then voila!

Also, don't forget to import render_template() and flash() from flask.

from flask import Flask, g, render_template, flash
from flask.ext.login import LoginManager


@app.route('/register', methods=('GET', 'POST'))
def register():
    form = forms.SignUpForm()
    if form.validate_on_submit():
        models.User.new(form.email.data, form.password.data)
        flash("Thanks for registering!")
    return render_template('register.html', form=form)

The thing to remember here, (and it becomes more clear later on) is that in the challenges for this course you're also building an app, but it's a different one. Same principles, but different models.

In the challenge editor, take a look and see if any other tabs are available (like forms.py or index.html) and see if you can figure out what variables you need to pass in.

Chances are good you're getting a non-200 response because the attributes you're passing to the model are wrong.

    if form.validate_on_submit():
          models.User.new(
                username=form.username.data,
                email=form.email.data,
                password=form.password.data
           )  # if these attributes are wrong...
     # this SHOULD happen regardless, but...
     return render_template('register.html', form=form)

So you're validating on submit, all right, the form verified it for you, but then you start trying to assign username to a model that doesn't have a username attribute, and Python pukes and Flask starts getting sick too and then it's like a pie eating contest and your function brought the castor oil and eggs

Hi Gavin,

I definitely agree with you when you said:

I think it would be so helpful if when you passed a code challenge it was retained so you could go back and look at it later.

So far no Flask or Django epiphanies...I agree the instructor should have spend more time going over how Flask possibly relates to the MVC (or MTV) software architectural patterns

For instance, if you combine Flask with ORM (Object-relational mapping) software like SQLAlchemy does it align it more closely with a classic model view controller paradigm?

.

Here's a few possibly related StackOverFlow threads:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8066199/is-flask-an-mvc-or-mtv

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12547206/flask-framework-mvc-pattern

.

An FAQ question regarding Django being "MVC":

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/faq/general/#django-appears-to-be-a-mvc-framework-but-you-call-the-controller-the-view-and-the-view-the-template-how-come-you-don-t-use-the-standard-names

A flask-mvc github I found:

https://github.com/funkenstein/flask-mvc

The whole Jinja2 "template inheritance" thing was just confusing no matter how many times I watch this video:

https://teamtreehouse.com/library/flask-basics/templates-and-static-files/template-inheritance

I keep wishing for some 10,000 mile high overview of how Flask (the micro-framework) can be used with other software pieces (packages?)

I know Kenneth is not going to go into every single piece of code out there that can interact with Flask but please..maybe even a quick cloud bubble diagram of what "surrounds" flask in terms of interaction possibilities?

What about REST-ful API extensions for Flask?

Some links I found:

http://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/designing-a-restful-api-with-python-and-flask

https://github.com/vinta/awesome-python#restful-api

http://flask-restful.readthedocs.org/en/0.3.2/

Flask in combination with (or using) Django's REST-ful API:

http://www.flaskapi.org/

There is so much Flask related info out on the internet and this course just seems to want me to stare down a pinhole tube at what they want me to see..

It's frustrating.

This is the code you are looking for ``` @app.route('/register', methods=('GET', 'POST')) def register(): form = forms.SignUpForm() if form.validate_on_submit(): user = models.User.new(email=form.email.data, password=form.password.data) flash("Thanks for registering!") return render_template('register.html', form=form)

Hi Gavin,

Thanks for trying to help.

I do have two other tabs available:

'models.py' and 'forms.py'

Here's the code found in each of those tabs:

models.py

import datetime

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

DATABASE = SqliteDatabase(':memory:')


class User(Model):
    email = CharField(unique=True)
    password = CharField(max_length=100)
    join_date = DateTimeField(default=datetime.datetime.now)
    bio = CharField(default='')

    class Meta:
        database = DATABASE

    @classmethod
    def new(cls, email, password):
        cls.create(
            email=email,
            password=generate_password_hash(password)
        )


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

forms.py

from flask_wtf import Form
from wtforms import StringField, PasswordField
from wtforms.validators import DataRequired, Email, Length


class SignUpForm(Form):
    email = StringField(validators=[DataRequired(), Email()])
    password = PasswordField(validators=[DataRequired(), Length(min=8)])

Then you said:

Chances are good you're getting a non-200 response because the attributes you're passing to the model are wrong.

Looking at forms.py i see these as possible attributes:

email = StringField(validators=[DataRequired(), Email()])
password = PasswordField(validators=[DataRequired(), Length(min=8)])

Looking at model.py (which may...possibly...be more significant in terms of

' attributes you're passing to the model')

I see these lines:

email = CharField(unique=True)
password = CharField(max_length=100)
join_date = DateTimeField(default=datetime.datetime.now)
bio = CharField(default='')

I try 'mirroring' these fields (and dropping the username) in lunch.py using

def register():
    form = forms.SignUpForm()
    flash("Thanks for registering!", "success")
    if form.validate_on_submit():
      models.User.new(            
            email=form.email.data,
            password=form.password.data,
            join_date=form.username.data,
            bio=form.username.data,
      )
      return redirect(url_for('index'))
    return render_template('register.html', form=form)

But I got the same 'Bummer! Didn't get a 200 at '/register'.'

So clearly I'm still missing something..

Edit 1:

Kept playing around and eventually I managed to get it to pass just using the email and password lines under 'models.User.new( '

So it looks like the attributes in the forms.py, (not the model.py), are the ones that need to be used in lunch.py..

..but I had to work through a bunch of "Task 1 is no longer passing" errors, so don't ask me what the final passing code looked like...

As long as I'm passed that challenge, I'm just going to leave it in the rear view mirror and forgetaboutit!

I still need to pass task 4 of 4 for the form with validators challenge in 'Takin' Names section, so I'll move on to that..

Link:

http://teamtreehouse.com/library/build-a-social-network-with-flask/takin-names/form-with-validators

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

class SignUpForm(Form):
    email = StringField(
        'Email',
        validators=[
            DataRequired(),
            Email()
        ])
    password = PasswordField(
        'Password',
        validators=[
            DataRequired(),
            Length(min=8)
        ]

Edit (later) : stupid stupid me...just forgot an extra parenthesis at the end..nevermind!

@app.route('/register', methods=('GET', 'POST'))
def register(email, password):
        cls.create(
            email=email,
            password=generate_password_hash(password)
        )

hi james

I have been working on task 3 of 3 for over 30 minutes

is this what you meant by "I managed to get it to pass just using the email and password lines under

'models.User.new( '"?

I have the same problem. When i am learning by myself i always have pdb and werkzeug debugger so if something is broke i am able to debug it by mysel or give traceroute to some people that know more about python.

Also don't forget to IMPORT "FLASH"