Flask SQLAlchemy pagination error

Question

I have this code and the all() method and every other method works on this and I have looked all over and I could that the method paginate() works

Answer 1

From your question...

that the method paginate() works on BaseQuery which is also Query

I think this is where you're being confused. "Query" refers to the SQLAlchemy Query object. "BaseQuery" refers to the Flask-SQLALchemy BaseQuery object, which is a subclass of Query. This subclass includes helpers such as first_or_404() and paginate(). However, this means that a Query object does NOT have the paginate() function. How you actually build the object you are calling your "Query" object depends on whether you are dealing with a Query or BaseQuery object.

In this code, you are getting the SQLAlchemy Query object, which results in an error:

db.session.query(models.Post).paginate(...)

If you use the following code, you get the pagination you're looking for, because you are dealing with a BaseQuery object (from Flask-SQLAlchemy) rather than a Query object (from SQLAlchemy).

models.Post.query.paginate(...)