How do I seed a flask sql-alchemy database

Question

I am new at python, I just learnt how to create an api using flask restless and flask sql-alchemy. I however would like to seed the database with random values. How do I ach

Answer 1

From another newbie, the forgerypy and forgerypy3 libraries are available for this purpose (though they look like they haven't been touched in a bit).

A simple example of how to use them by adding them to your model:

class TodoItem(db.Model):

    ....

    @staticmethod
    def generate_fake_data(records=10):
        import forgery_py
        from random import randint
        for record in records:
            todo = TodoItem(todo=forgery_py.lorem_ipsum.word(),
                            due_date=forgery_py.date.date(),
                            priority=randint(1,4))
            db.session.add(todo)
        try:
            db.session.commit()
        except:
            db.session.rollback()

You would then call the generate_fake_data method in a shell session.

And Miguel Grinberg's Flask Web Development (the O'Reilly book, not blog) chapter 11 is a good resource for this.