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Python Build a Social Network with Flask Takin' Names Form View

Devin Scheu
Devin Scheu
66,191 Points

Python

Question: Add a new view to lunch.py. The function name should be register and the route should be "/register". It should accept both GET and POST methods. For now, have it return the string "register".

Can some one walk me through step by step on this one?

lunch.py
from flask import Flask, g
from flask.ext.login import LoginManager

import forms
import models

app = Flask(__name__)
app.secret_key = 'this is our super secret key. do not share it with anyone!'
login_manager = LoginManager()
login_manager.init_app(app)


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


@app.before_request
def before_request():
    g.db = models.DATABASE
    g.db.connect()


@app.after_request
def after_request(response):
    g.db.close()
    return response
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)])

2 Answers

Dan Johnson
Dan Johnson
40,533 Points

For the first part of this challenge, you need to do the following:

  1. Define a function named register and have it return a string of the same name.
  2. Decorate the function with a route, with "/register" as the path.
  3. The route also excepts an argument, methods, which you can assign a tuple with all supported HTTP methods. The methods are expressed as strings. GET and POST need to be supported.

I wish I could :)

Devin Scheu
Devin Scheu
66,191 Points

Thanks for the kind reply Ellie!