Mastering Geospatial Analysis with Python

Views

Flask views are Python functions that, when paired with the app controller object and its app.route URL definitions, allows us to write Python code to accept a web request, process it, and return a response. They are the heart of the web application, making it possible to connect web pages and their forms to the database and its tables.

To create views, we will import all of the application components along with a number of Flask functions. The forms and models are imported from their respective scripts, as is the app object:

from application import appfrom flask import render_template,jsonify, redirect, url_for, requestfrom .forms import * from .models import *

For the Arena application, we have two views defined that create two application ...