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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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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

Request setup and teardown

When your WSGI (Web Server Gateway Interface) handles a request, Flask creates a request context object that contains all the information about the request itself. This object is pushed into a stack that contains other important information, such as the Flask app , g, session, and flash messages.

The request object is available to any function, view, or template that is currently processing the request; this happens without the need to pass around the request object itself. request contains information such as HTTP headers, URI arguments, URL path, WSGI environment, and whatnot.

For more detailed information on the Flask request object, see: http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/api/#incoming-request-data.

We can easily add more information to the request context by implementing our own hooks on request creation. To achieve this, we can use Flask's decorator...

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