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Mastering Flask Web Development

You're reading from   Mastering Flask Web Development Build enterprise-grade, scalable Python web applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788995405
Length 332 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Jack Stouffer Jack Stouffer
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started 2. Creating Models with SQLAlchemy FREE CHAPTER 3. Creating Views with Templates 4. Creating Controllers with Blueprints 5. Advanced Application Structure 6. Securing Your App 7. Using NoSQL with Flask 8. Building RESTful APIs 9. Creating Asynchronous Tasks with Celery 10. Useful Flask Extensions 11. Building Your Own Extension 12. Testing Flask Apps 13. Deploying Flask Apps 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating a reminder app

Let's get into some real-world example applications of Celery. Suppose another page on our site now requires a reminders feature. Users can create reminders that will send an email to a specified location at a specified time. We will need a model, a task, and a way to call our task automatically every time a model is created.

Let's start with the following basic SQLAlchemy model:

class Reminder(db.Model): 
    id = db.Column(db.Integer(), primary_key=True) 
    date = db.Column(db.DateTime()) 
    email = db.Column(db.String()) 
    text = db.Column(db.Text()) 
  
def __repr__(self): return "<Reminder '{}'>".format(self.text[:20])

Now, we need a task that will send an email to the location in the model. In our blog/tasks.py file, look up the following task:

@celery.task(
bind=True,
ignore_result=True...
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