Flask Framework Cookbook - Second Edition

How to do it...

Again, with Flask-Admin, registering a model with the admin interface is very easy; perform the following steps:

1. Just add the following single line of code to auth/views.py:

from flask_admin.contrib.sqla import ModelView 
 
# Other admin configuration as shown in last recipe 
admin.add_view(ModelView(views.User, db.session)) 

Here, in the first line, we imported ModelView from flask_admin.contrib.sqla, which is provided by Flask-Admin to integrate SQLAlchemy models.

Looking at the screenshot corresponding to the first step in the next section, most of us will agree that showing the password hash to any user, be it an admin or a normal user, does not make sense. Additionally, the default model-creation mechanism provided by ...