Hoot Back-End Comment Blueprint

Learning objective: By the end of this lesson, students will be able to implement full RESTful routes with related data in Flask

Comments Blueprint

Keeping with the modular approach to our application, let’s create a new blue print to store routes related to comments.

💡 This will be structured much like our previous blueprints.

Run the following command in your terminal:

touch comments_blueprint.py

Add the following to comments_blueprint.py

from flask import Blueprint, jsonify, request, g
from db_helpers import get_db_connection
import psycopg2.extras
from auth_middleware import token_required

comments_blueprint = Blueprint('comments_blueprint', __name__)

# Routes here

💡 Note the import of token_required for protected routes, such as creating a comment or editing/deleting one’s own comments.

Add the following import to app.py:

# add to list of imports
from auth_blueprint import authentication_blueprint
from hoots_blueprint import hoots_blueprint
# New import:
from comments_blueprint import comments_blueprint

And register the new blueprint:

app.register_blueprint(hoots_blueprint)
app.register_blueprint(authentication_blueprint)
# Register new blueprint:
app.register_blueprint(comments_blueprint)