Mastering Flask

Flask Login

To start using Flask Login, it needs to be downloaded first:

$ pip install flask-login

The main Flask Login object is the LoginManager object. Like the other Flask extensions, initialize the LoginManager object in extensions.py:

from flask.ext.login import LoginManager
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login_manager = LoginManager()

There are some configuration options that need to be changed on the object:

login_manager.login_view = "main.login"
login_manager.session_protection = "strong"
login_manager.login_message = "Please login to access this page"
login_manager.login_message_category = "info"

@login_manager.user_loader
def load_user(userid):
    from models import User
    return User.query.get(userid)

The preceding configuration values define which view should be treated ...