okay, condition* now works, menu to call them works, just testing it out though, so also a BookForm started but unused at present. Finally, tweaked pagination size to 20 now that navbar takes up so much space, also made pagination choices match

main.py

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ from flask import request
 from flask_sqlalchemy import SQLAlchemy
 from flask_marshmallow import Marshmallow
 from flask_bootstrap import Bootstrap
+from wtforms import SubmitField, StringField, HiddenField, SelectField, validators, Form
 
 app = Flask(__name__)
 ### what is this value? I gather I should chagne it?
@@ -18,6 +19,7 @@ Bootstrap(app)
 from author import Author, AuthorForm, AuthorSchema
 from publisher import Publisher, PublisherForm, PublisherSchema
 from genre import Genre, GenreForm, GenreSchema
+from condition import Condition, ConditionForm, ConditionSchema
 
 ####################################### CLASSES / DB model #######################################
 book_author_link = db.Table('book_author_link', db.Model.metadata,
@@ -47,19 +49,19 @@ class Book_Sub_Book_Link(db.Model):
 class Book(db.Model):
     id = db.Column(db.Integer, unique=True, nullable=False, primary_key=True)
     title = db.Column(db.String(100), unique=True, nullable=False)
+    author = db.relationship('Author', secondary=book_author_link)
+    publisher = db.relationship('Publisher', secondary=book_publisher_link)
+    genre = db.relationship('Genre', secondary=book_genre_link )
     year_published = db.Column(db.Integer)
-    rating = db.Column(db.String(20))
-    condition = db.Column(db.String(20))
     owned = db.Column(db.String(20))
     covertype = db.Column(db.String(20))
+    condition = db.Column(db.String(20))
+    rating = db.Column(db.String(20))
     notes = db.Column(db.Text)
     blurb = db.Column(db.Text)
     created = db.Column(db.Date)
     modified = db.Column(db.Date)
 
-    author = db.relationship('Author', secondary=book_author_link)
-    publisher = db.relationship('Publisher', secondary=book_publisher_link)
-    genre = db.relationship('Genre', secondary=book_genre_link )
     parent_ref = db.relationship('Book_Sub_Book_Link', secondary=Book_Sub_Book_Link.__table__, primaryjoin="Book.id==Book_Sub_Book_Link.sub_book_id", secondaryjoin="Book.id==Book_Sub_Book_Link.book_id" )
     child_ref = db.relationship('Book_Sub_Book_Link', secondary=Book_Sub_Book_Link.__table__, primaryjoin="Book.id==Book_Sub_Book_Link.book_id", secondaryjoin="Book.id==Book_Sub_Book_Link.sub_book_id" )
 
@@ -69,6 +71,9 @@ class Book(db.Model):
 class Book_Sub_Book_LinkSchema(ma.SQLAlchemyAutoSchema):
     class Meta: model = Book_Sub_Book_Link
 
+# Note not ordering this in the code below as, I can't work out how to use
+# jinja2 to iterate over orderedDict - seems it doesnt support it?
+# so I just hacked a list of keys in book.html
 class BookSchema(ma.SQLAlchemyAutoSchema):
     author = ma.Nested(AuthorSchema, many=True)
     publisher = ma.Nested(PublisherSchema, many=True)
@@ -77,6 +82,17 @@ class BookSchema(ma.SQLAlchemyAutoSchema):
     child_ref = ma.Nested(Book_Sub_Book_LinkSchema, many=True)
     class Meta: model = Book
 
+#
+# To be completed
+#
+class BookForm(Form):
+	# I think I'll have to skip setting default on create, and using jquery to
+	# change it when I create the from? (or maybe I could use a default=set_me
+	# in the line below, then when I set create set_me = book.condition before
+	# bf=BookForm() 
+    condition = SelectField( 'condition',  choices=[(c.id, c.name) for c in Condition.query.order_by('id')] )
+
+
 ### DDP: do I need many=True on Author as books have many authors? (or in BookSchema declaration above?)
 book_schema = BookSchema()
 books_schema = BookSchema(many=True)