Creating a basic product model

In this recipe, we will create an application that will help us store products to be displayed on the catalog section of a website. It should be possible to add products to the catalog and delete them as and when required. As we saw in previous chapters, this is possible to do using non-persistent storage as well. But, here we will store data in a database to have persistent storage.

How to do it…

The new directory layout will look as follows:

flask_catalog/
    - run.py
    my_app/
        – __init__.py
        catalog/
            - __init__.py
            - views.py
            - models.py

First of all, we will start by modifying our application configuration file, that is, flask_catalog/my_app/__init__.py:

from flask import Flask
from flask.ext.sqlalchemy import SQLAlchemy

app = Flask(__name__)
app.config['SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI'] = 'sqlite:////tmp/test.db'
db = SQLAlchemy(app)

from my_app.catalog.views import catalog
app...