What you are looking for is SQLAlchemy built-in ORM to build forms from models or integrated to database. There are other options to overcome limitations of Flask ORM when needed. Following is the example that would give you some clarity.
from flask import Flask, render_template, redirect, flash
from flask.wtf import Form
from flask.ext.sqlalchemy import SQLAlchemy
from wtf.ext.sqlalchemy.orm import model_form
app=Flask(__app__)
app.config['SECRET_KEY'] = 'secret'
app.config['SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI'] = 'sqlite:////tmp/employees.sqlite'
app.config['SQLALCHEMY_ECHO'] = True
# Here you initiate the ext
db=SQLAlchemy(app)
#Let's define a model
class Employee(db.Model)
__tablename__ = 'employee'
id = db.Column(db.Integer, primary_key=True)
name = db.Column(db.String(100), nullable=False
birthday = db.Column(db.Date, nullable=False
def __repr__(self):
return 'employee %s' %self.name
# Now go to your shell inside your env not in gloabal shell outside your env and run this command.
# From your .py file where you've created all above configration first make an import to db from shell
from file.py import db
#Then create a database with following command in shell
db.create.all()
#Your auto generated database based form below
EmployeeForm() = model_form(Employee, base_class=Form, field_args{'name':{'class':'employee'}})
#Let's create a view with model_form or database based form in your case.
@app.route('/', methods=['GET', 'POST'])
def index()
#request.POST does same in Django or any other Python based web framework like Bottle, Tornado etc
form = EmployeeForm()
try:
if form_validate_on_submit():
employee=Employee() #load the model values
form.populate_obj(Employee) #populates the form with respective values
db.session.add(employee) #gathers the session based data to be added in DB
db.session.commit() #Adds data to DB
flash('New Employee added to database successfully.') #Display a message to end user at front end.
retrun redirect('/') # redirects upon success to your homepage.
except Exception e:
# logs the errors
db.session.rollback()
flash('There was a problem registering new employee. Please contact the site administrator at [email protected]')
employee_list = Employe.query.all() #equailent to django style "item.objects.all() to show list of all existing items.
return render_template('index.html', form=form, employee_list=employee_list)
In last line above you did three things. You got your form variable or context variable like you do in Django as "form" so your end user can enter data.
Then you have your model data that is saved in db as "employee_list=employee_list" that will show all the list to end users. "flash" is just like Django
messaging framework.
Now for multiple choices its model has same as djagno choice arguement for key value like below:
With my experience I would suggest you to install "peewee" a simple ORM for Python connected Databases.
choices = (('key', 'value')('key', 'value'))
employee_type = db.Model(db.String(90), choices=('key1', 'key2)
Hope this helps.
