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

a bit late but heres a quick implementation that i use to register routes at init time

from flask import Flask,request,render_template
from functools import partial


registered_routes = {}
def register_route(route=None):
    #simple decorator for class based views
    def inner(fn):
        registered_routes[route] = fn
        return fn
    return inner

class MyServer(Flask):
    def __init__(self,*args,**kwargs):
        if not args:
            kwargs.setdefault('import_name',__name__)
        Flask.__init__(self,*args ,**kwargs)
        # register the routes from the decorator
        for route,fn in registered_routes.items():
            partial_fn = partial(fn,self)
            partial_fn.__name__ = fn.__name__
            self.route(route)(partial_fn)


    @register_route("/")
    def index(self):
        return render_template("my_template.html")

if __name__ == "__main__":
    MyServer(template_folder=os.path.dirname(__file__)).run(debug=True)