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+<span id="sqlite3"></span><h1>Using SQLite 3 with Flask<a class="headerlink" href="#using-sqlite-3-with-flask" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
+<p>In Flask you can implement the opening of database connections at the
+beginning of the request and closing at the end with the
+<a class="reference internal" href="../api.html#flask.Flask.before_request" title="flask.Flask.before_request"><tt class="xref py py-meth docutils literal"><span class="pre">before_request()</span></tt></a> and <a class="reference internal" href="../api.html#flask.Flask.teardown_request" title="flask.Flask.teardown_request"><tt class="xref py py-meth docutils literal"><span class="pre">teardown_request()</span></tt></a>
+decorators in combination with the special <a class="reference internal" href="../api.html#flask.g" title="flask.g"><tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">g</span></tt></a> object.</p>
+<p>So here is a simple example of how you can use SQLite 3 with Flask:</p>
+<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">sqlite3</span>
+<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">flask</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">g</span>
+
+<span class="n">DATABASE</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s">&#39;/path/to/database.db&#39;</span>
+
+<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">connect_db</span><span class="p">():</span>
+ <span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">sqlite3</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">connect</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">DATABASE</span><span class="p">)</span>
+
+<span class="nd">@app.before_request</span>
+<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">before_request</span><span class="p">():</span>
+ <span class="n">g</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">db</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">connect_db</span><span class="p">()</span>
+
+<span class="nd">@app.teardown_request</span>
+<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">teardown_request</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">exception</span><span class="p">):</span>
+ <span class="k">if</span> <span class="nb">hasattr</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">g</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s">&#39;db&#39;</span><span class="p">):</span>
+ <span class="n">g</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">db</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">close</span><span class="p">()</span>
+</pre></div>
+</div>
+<div class="admonition note">
+<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
+<p class="last">Please keep in mind that the teardown request functions are always
+executed, even if a before-request handler failed or was never
+executed. Because of this we have to make sure here that the database
+is there before we close it.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="connect-on-demand">
+<h2>Connect on Demand<a class="headerlink" href="#connect-on-demand" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
+<p>The downside of this approach is that this will only work if Flask
+executed the before-request handlers for you. If you are attempting to
+use the database from a script or the interactive Python shell you would
+have to do something like this:</p>
+<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="k">with</span> <span class="n">app</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">test_request_context</span><span class="p">():</span>
+ <span class="n">app</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">preprocess_request</span><span class="p">()</span>
+ <span class="c"># now you can use the g.db object</span>
+</pre></div>
+</div>
+<p>In order to trigger the execution of the connection code. You won&#8217;t be
+able to drop the dependency on the request context this way, but you could
+make it so that the application connects when necessary:</p>
+<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">get_connection</span><span class="p">():</span>
+ <span class="n">db</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="nb">getattr</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">g</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s">&#39;_db&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="bp">None</span><span class="p">)</span>
+ <span class="k">if</span> <span class="n">db</span> <span class="ow">is</span> <span class="bp">None</span><span class="p">:</span>
+ <span class="n">db</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">g</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">_db</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">connect_db</span><span class="p">()</span>
+ <span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">db</span>
+</pre></div>
+</div>
+<p>Downside here is that you have to use <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">db</span> <span class="pre">=</span> <span class="pre">get_connection()</span></tt> instead of
+just being able to use <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">g.db</span></tt> directly.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="easy-querying">
+<span id="id1"></span><h2>Easy Querying<a class="headerlink" href="#easy-querying" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
+<p>Now in each request handling function you can access <cite>g.db</cite> to get the
+current open database connection. To simplify working with SQLite, a
+helper function can be useful:</p>
+<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">query_db</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">query</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">args</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="p">(),</span> <span class="n">one</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="bp">False</span><span class="p">):</span>
+ <span class="n">cur</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">g</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">db</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">execute</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">query</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">args</span><span class="p">)</span>
+ <span class="n">rv</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="nb">dict</span><span class="p">((</span><span class="n">cur</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">description</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="n">idx</span><span class="p">][</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">],</span> <span class="n">value</span><span class="p">)</span>
+ <span class="k">for</span> <span class="n">idx</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">value</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="nb">enumerate</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">row</span><span class="p">))</span> <span class="k">for</span> <span class="n">row</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="n">cur</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">fetchall</span><span class="p">()]</span>
+ <span class="k">return</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="n">rv</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="k">if</span> <span class="n">rv</span> <span class="k">else</span> <span class="bp">None</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="k">if</span> <span class="n">one</span> <span class="k">else</span> <span class="n">rv</span>
+</pre></div>
+</div>
+<p>This handy little function makes working with the database much more
+pleasant than it is by just using the raw cursor and connection objects.</p>
+<p>Here is how you can use it:</p>
+<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="k">for</span> <span class="n">user</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="n">query_db</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&#39;select * from users&#39;</span><span class="p">):</span>
+ <span class="k">print</span> <span class="n">user</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="s">&#39;username&#39;</span><span class="p">],</span> <span class="s">&#39;has the id&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">user</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="s">&#39;user_id&#39;</span><span class="p">]</span>
+</pre></div>
+</div>
+<p>Or if you just want a single result:</p>
+<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="n">user</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">query_db</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&#39;select * from users where username = ?&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span>
+ <span class="p">[</span><span class="n">the_username</span><span class="p">],</span> <span class="n">one</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="bp">True</span><span class="p">)</span>
+<span class="k">if</span> <span class="n">user</span> <span class="ow">is</span> <span class="bp">None</span><span class="p">:</span>
+ <span class="k">print</span> <span class="s">&#39;No such user&#39;</span>
+<span class="k">else</span><span class="p">:</span>
+ <span class="k">print</span> <span class="n">the_username</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s">&#39;has the id&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">user</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="s">&#39;user_id&#39;</span><span class="p">]</span>
+</pre></div>
+</div>
+<p>To pass variable parts to the SQL statement, use a question mark in the
+statement and pass in the arguments as a list. Never directly add them to
+the SQL statement with string formatting because this makes it possible
+to attack the application using <a class="reference external" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL_injection">SQL Injections</a>.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="initial-schemas">
+<h2>Initial Schemas<a class="headerlink" href="#initial-schemas" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
+<p>Relational databases need schemas, so applications often ship a
+<cite>schema.sql</cite> file that creates the database. It&#8217;s a good idea to provide
+a function that creates the database based on that schema. This function
+can do that for you:</p>
+<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">contextlib</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">closing</span>
+
+<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">init_db</span><span class="p">():</span>
+ <span class="k">with</span> <span class="n">closing</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">connect_db</span><span class="p">())</span> <span class="k">as</span> <span class="n">db</span><span class="p">:</span>
+ <span class="k">with</span> <span class="n">app</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">open_resource</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&#39;schema.sql&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="k">as</span> <span class="n">f</span><span class="p">:</span>
+ <span class="n">db</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">cursor</span><span class="p">()</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">executescript</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">f</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">read</span><span class="p">())</span>
+ <span class="n">db</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">commit</span><span class="p">()</span>
+</pre></div>
+</div>
+<p>You can then create such a database from the python shell:</p>
+<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">yourapplication</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">init_db</span>
+<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">init_db</span><span class="p">()</span>
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+<li><a class="reference internal" href="#">Using SQLite 3 with Flask</a><ul>
+<li><a class="reference internal" href="#connect-on-demand">Connect on Demand</a></li>
+<li><a class="reference internal" href="#easy-querying">Easy Querying</a></li>
+<li><a class="reference internal" href="#initial-schemas">Initial Schemas</a></li>
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