bundled/flask/docs/tutorial/introduction.rst @ 9030dc9517cf
web: add basic tests This patch adds a new test module `test_web` to automate testing of web requests. For now the tests are rather simple and only check for expected status codes. To set up the flask app within the tests, it has to be configured properly. This is the reason why the app configuration part in `web.py` has been moved into an own function - now it may also be used by the test module.
| author | Oben Sonne <obensonne@googlemail.com> |
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| date | Mon, 02 Jul 2012 22:32:48 +0200 |
| parents | f33efe14bff1 |
| children | (none) |
.. _tutorial-introduction: Introducing Flaskr ================== We will call our blogging application flaskr here, feel free to chose a less web-2.0-ish name ;) Basically we want it to do the following things: 1. let the user sign in and out with credentials specified in the configuration. Only one user is supported. 2. when the user is logged in he or she can add new entries to the page consisting of a text-only title and some HTML for the text. This HTML is not sanitized because we trust the user here. 3. the page shows all entries so far in reverse order (newest on top) and the user can add new ones from there if logged in. We will be using SQLite3 directly for that application because it's good enough for an application of that size. For larger applications however it makes a lot of sense to use `SQLAlchemy`_ that handles database connections in a more intelligent way, allows you to target different relational databases at once and more. You might also want to consider one of the popular NoSQL databases if your data is more suited for those. Here a screenshot from the final application: .. image:: ../_static/flaskr.png :align: center :class: screenshot :alt: screenshot of the final application Continue with :ref:`tutorial-folders`. .. _SQLAlchemy: http://www.sqlalchemy.org/