I'm working on forum template using Flask. When I attempt creating a new thread in the browser using forms, SQLAlchemy throws an AttributeError. The problem showed up when I tried implementing a one-to-many relationship with Forum-to-Thread and a one-to-many relationship with Thread-to-User.
models.py
class User(db.Model):
id = db.Column(db.Integer, primary_key=True)
username = db.Column(db.String(32), index=True, unique=True)
password = db.Column(db.String(32), index=True)
email = db.Column(db.String(120), index=True, unique=True)
role = db.Column(db.SmallInteger, default=ROLE_USER)
posts = db.relationship('Post', backref='author', lazy='dynamic')
class Forum(db.Model):
id = db.Column(db.Integer, primary_key=True)
title = db.Column(db.String(128))
description = db.Column(db.Text)
threads = db.relationship('Thread', backref='forum', lazy='dynamic')
class Thread(db.Model):
id = db.Column(db.Integer, primary_key=True)
title = db.Column(db.String(128))
author= db.Column(db.String(32))
timestamp = db.Column(db.DateTime)
forum_id = db.Column(db.Integer, db.ForeignKey('forum.id'))
posts = db.relationship('Post', backref='thread', lazy='dynamic')
class Post(db.Model):
id = db.Column(db.Integer, primary_key=True)
body = db.Column(db.Text)
timestamp = db.Column(db.DateTime)
thread_id = db.Column(db.Integer, db.ForeignKey('thread.id'))
user_id = db.Column(db.Integer, db.ForeignKey('user.id'))
All the new posts/threads and handled within views.py
views.py
@app.route('/forum/id=<id>/submit', methods=['GET','POST'])
@login_required
def new_thread(id):
form = ThreadForm()
forum = Forum.query.filter_by(id=id).first()
if form.validate_on_submit():
thread = Thread(title=form.title.data,
author=g.user.username,
timestamp=datetime.utcnow())
db.session.add(thread)
db.session.flush()
post = Post(body=form.body.data,
timestamp=datetime.utcnow(),
thread=thread.id,
author=g.user.id)
db.session.add(post)
db.session.commit()
flash('Post successful.')
return redirect(url_for('forum_index', id=id))
return render_template('forum/thread_submit.html', title=forum.title, form=form)