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Mastering Geospatial Analysis with Python
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Mastering Geospatial Analysis with Python

by Silas Toms, Paul Crickard, Eric van Rees
April 2018
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
440 pages
11h 36m
English
Packt Publishing
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POST

The POST requests carry data that can be processed to add to a database. To differentiate a POST request, the Flask requests object has the method property, which can be checked to see if the request method was GET or POST. If we create a form (called AddForm) to add new arenas to the Arenas table, we could process the data submitted as a POST request and add it the database using the session manager:

from flask import requestfrom .forms import AddForm@app.route('/nba/api/v0.1/arena/add', methods=['GET', 'POST'])def add_arenas():  form = AddForm(request.form)  form.name.data = "New Arena"  form.longitude.data = -121.5  form.latitude.data = 37.8  if request.method == "POST":    arena = Arena()    arena.name = request.form['name'] arena.longitude ...
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