Object Oriented Python with Flask Server?

Question

I\'m using Flask to expose some data-crunching code as a web service. I\'d like to have some class variables that my Flask functions can access.

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Answer 1

I know this is a late reply, but I came across this question while facing a similar issue. I found flask-classful really good. You inherit your class from FlaskView and register the Flask app with your MyServer class

http://flask-classful.teracy.org/#

In this case, with flask-classful, your code would look like this:

from flask import Flask
from flask_classful import FlaskView, route

app = Flask(__name__)

class MyServer(FlaskView):
  def __init__(self):
    globalData = json.load(filename)

  @route('/getSomeData')
  def getSomeData():
    return random.choice(globalData) #select some random data to return


MyServer.register(app, base_route="/")


if __name__ == "__main__":
  app.run(host='0.0.0.0')