conceptual tutorial

post

"""
Demonstrating POST data with Mitchuation (through Flask)
"""
from flask import Flask
from flask import request

app = Flask(__name__)


@app.route('/')
def hello_world():
    """ 
    This will return the raw HTML form that is configured to send the
    data in the form to the url '/test'.  This other route is defined 
    in another method below.
    """
    
    return """
    
    <form action="/test" method="POST">
      How old are you?: <input name="age"/> (press enter when done)
    </form>
    """

  
@app.route('/test', methods=['post'])
def test():
    
    """ 
    Each HTTP request can have data sent from a form
    This is typically called POST data (for reasons I won't get into right now)
    Flask provides access to this data via the request object's property
    called form.  It's a dictionary of values recieved from the web browser
    """
    their_age = request.form['age']
    # The above establishes the variable 'their_name' as the form parameter 'name.'
   
    # This allows you to see the data structure that flask 
    # provides to see the data the browser sent. (in the console.)
    print request.form
    
    return 'Hello, I see that you are ' + their_age + ' years old.'
  
if __name__ == '__main__':
    app.run(host='0.0.0.0', port=8080)
    
""" Play around with this; add a new field, maybe make an madlib """