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SuperFlaskSeed

Restful API framework wrapped around Sqlalchemy.
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Flask Super Seed

Flask Seed is a production ready seed app with following plugins integrated.

  • Flask Admin
  • Flask Security
  • Flask User
  • Flask RestFul
  • Flask Marshmallow
  • Flask Script
  • Flask Migrate

Using the seed:

  • Create Models
  • Create Schemas for the model
  • Define Resources for your schema's and model's
  • Define value for following in your resource
    • model = None
    • schema = None
    • filters = {}
    • fields = ()
    • max_limit = 100
    • default_limit = 20
    • related_resource = {}
    • order_by = []
    • only = ()
    • exclude = ()
    • auth_required = False/True
      • roles_accepted = () access if any of these roles assigned to user
      • roles_required = () access if all of these roles assigned to user
  • Define View for your resource
    • Add methods to api_methods in your view (BulkUpdate, List, Fetch, Create, Delete, Update)
    • View are of 2 types Base and Association View.
    • Base view supports (BulkUpdate, List, Fetch, Create, Delete, Update)
      • BulkUpdate PUT update single or multiple resource
      • Save POST save single or multiple resource
      • Update PATCH update single resource
      • List GET fetch multiple resource
      • Fetch GET fetch single resource
    • AssociationView for Association table to create, delete or update relation among Resources using Patch call.

Example

User Model

class User(db.Model, BaseMixin, UserMixin, ReprMixin):
    email = db.Column(db.String(127), unique=True, nullable=False)
    password = db.Column(db.String(255), default='', nullable=False)
    username = db.Column(db.String(127), nullable=True)

    active = db.Column(db.Boolean())
    confirmed_at = db.Column(db.DateTime())
    last_login_at = db.Column(db.DateTime())
    current_login_at = db.Column(db.DateTime())

    last_login_ip = db.Column(db.String(45))
    current_login_ip = db.Column(db.String(45))
    login_count = db.Column(db.Integer)
    roles = db.relationship('UserRole', back_populates='user')

    user_profile = db.relationship("UserProfile", uselist=False, back_populates="user", cascade='all, delete-orphan')

    @hybrid_property
    def name(self):
        if self.user_profile and self.user_profile.first_name:
            if self.user_profile.last_name:
                return self.user_profile.first_name + self.user_profile.last_name
            return self.user_profile.first_name

Role Model

class Role(db.Model, RoleMixin, ReprMixin):
    id = db.Column(db.Integer(), primary_key=True)
    name = db.Column(db.String(80), unique=True)
    description = db.Column(db.String(255))

    users = db.relationship('UserRole', back_populates='role')

UserRole Model

class UserRole(db.Model, BaseMixin):

    user_id = db.Column(db.Integer(), db.ForeignKey('user.id', ondelete='CASCADE'))
    role_id = db.Column(db.Integer(), db.ForeignKey('role.id', ondelete='CASCADE'))

    user = db.relationship('User', back_populates='roles')
    role = db.relationship('Role', back_populates='users')

    UniqueConstraint(user_id, role_id)

Schemas

class UserSchema(BaseSchema):

    class Meta:
        model = User
        exclude = ('created_on', 'updated_on', 'password', 'current_login_at', 'current_login_ip',
                   'last_login_at', 'last_login_ip', 'login_count')

    id = ma.Integer(dump_only=True)
    email = ma.Email(unique=True, primary_key=True, required=True)
    username = ma.String(required=True)
    user_profile = ma.Nested('UserProfileSchema', load=True, many=False, exclude=('user',))
    roles = ma.Nested('RoleSchema', many=True, dump_only=True)

Resources

class UserResource(ModelResource):

    model = User
    schema = UserSchema

    filters = {
        'username': [ops.Equal, ops.Contains],
        'active': [ops.Boolean]
    }

    related_resource = {
        'user_profile': UserProfileResource
    }

    order_by = ['email', 'id']

    only = ()

    exclude = ()

    def has_read_permission(self, request, qs):
        return qs

    def has_change_permission(self, request, obj):
        return True

    def has_delete_permission(self, request, obj):
        return True

    def has_add_permission(self, request, obj):

        return True

View

@api.register()
class UserListView(BaseView):
    resource = UserResource
    
    
@api.register()
class UserRoleAssociationView(AssociationView):

    resource = UserRoleResource

This will create following resource's

  • /user//
    • GET /user/1/
    • Get single instance of resource
      
    • PATCH /user/1/
    • Update single instance of resource
      
    • Delete /user/1/
    • Delete single instance of resource
      
  • /user/
    • GET /user/
    • Get multiple instance of resource
      
    • POST /user/
    •  Create multiple or single instance of resource
      
    • PUT /user/
    •  Update multiple or single instance of resource
      
  • /user_role/
    • Patch /user_role/
    • Patch multiple association among resource
      
      • Example:
        • [ {"user_id":1,"role_id":1, "__action": "add"}, {"user_id":1,"role_id":1, "__action": "remove"}]