from wtforms import SubmitField, StringField, HiddenField, validators, Form from flask_wtf import FlaskForm from flask import request, render_template from __main__ import db, app, ma ################################################################################ # Class describing Author in the database, and via sqlalchemy, connected to the DB as well ################################################################################ class Author(db.Model): id = db.Column(db.Integer, unique=True, nullable=False, primary_key=True) surname = db.Column(db.String(30), unique=False, nullable=False) firstnames = db.Column(db.String(50), unique=False, nullable=False) def __repr__(self): return "".format(self.id,self.firstnames, self.surname) ################################################################################ # Helper class that inherits a .dump() method to turn class Author into json / useful in jinja2 ################################################################################ class AuthorSchema(ma.SQLAlchemyAutoSchema): class Meta: model = Author ordered = True ################################################################################ # Helper class that defines a form for author, used to make html
, with field validation (via wtforms) ################################################################################ class AuthorForm(FlaskForm): id = HiddenField() firstnames = StringField('FirstName(s):', [validators.DataRequired()]) surname = StringField('Surname:', [validators.DataRequired()]) submit = SubmitField('Save' ) delete = SubmitField('Delete' ) ################################################################################ # Routes for author data # # /authors -> GET only -> prints out list of all authors ################################################################################ @app.route("/authors", methods=["GET"]) def authors(): authors = Author.query.all() return render_template("authors.html", authors=authors) ################################################################################ # /author/ -> GET/POST(save or delete) -> shows/edits/delets a single author ################################################################################ @app.route("/author/", methods=["GET", "POST"]) def author(id): ### DDP: should this be request.form or request.values? alert="Success" author_form = AuthorForm(request.form) if request.method == 'POST' and author_form.validate_on_submit(): id = request.form['id'] author = Author.query.get(id) try: request.form['submit'] except: message="Sorry, Deleting unsupported at present" alert="Danger" else: author.firstnames = request.form['firstnames'] author.surname = request.form['surname'] db.session.commit() message="Successfully Updated Author (id={})".format(id) else: author = Author.query.get(id) author_form = AuthorForm(request.values, obj=author) message="" return render_template("author.html", author=author, alert=alert, message=message, author_form=author_form)