I tried to test my Flask application following this blog but I said:
(venv) mike@mike-Inspiron-3543:~/Documents/programming/microblog$ flask shell
Usage: flask shell [OPTIONS]
Error: While importing "microblog", an ImportError was raised:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/mike/Documents/programming/microblog/venv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/flask/cli.py", line 235, in locate_app
__import__(module_name)
File "/home/mike/Documents/programming/microblog/microblog.py", line 1, in <module>
from app import app, db
File "/home/mike/Documents/programming/microblog/app/__init__.py", line 6, in <module>
from app import routes, models
File "/home/mike/Documents/programming/microblog/app/app.py", line 6, in <module>
ImportError: cannot import name routes
The database was represented in the application by with an instance in app/__init__.py
:
from flask import Flask
from config import Config
from flask_sqlalchemy import SQLAlchemy
from flask_migrate import Migrate
from app import routes, models
from flask_login import LoginManager
app = Flask(__name__)
app.config.from_object(Config)
db = SQLAlchemy(app)
migrate = Migrate(app, db)
login = LoginManager(app)
login.login_view = 'login'
I have a file app/routes.py
:
from flask import render_template, flash, redirect
from app.forms import LoginForm
from app import app
from flask_login import current_user, login_user
from app.models import User
from flask_login import logout_user
from flask import request
from werkzeug.urls import url_parse
@app.route('/')
@app.route('/index')
@login_required
def index():
user = {'username': 'Miguel'}
posts = [
{
'author': {'username': 'John'},
'body': 'Beautiful day in Portland!'
},
{
'author': {'username': 'Susan'},
'body': 'The Avengers movie was so cool!'
}
]
return render_template("index.html", title='Home Page', posts=posts)
@app.route('/login', methods=['GET', 'POST'])
def login():
if current_user.is_authenticated:
return redirect(url_for('index'))
form = LoginForm()
if form.validate_on_submit():
user = User.query.filter_by(username=form.username.data).first()
if user is None or not user.check_password(form.password.data):
flash('Invalid username or password')
return redirect(url_for('login'))
login_user(user, remember=form.remember_me.data)
next_page = request.args.get('next')
if not next_page or url_parse(next_page).netloc != '':
next_page = url_for('index')
return redirect(next_page)
return render_template('login.html', title='Sign In', form=form)
@app.route('/logout')
def logout():
logout_user()
return redirect(url_for('index'))
from flask_login import login_required