[Flask] Globally accessible variables in Flask

[Young,Spencer P]

You probably want to take a look at the request context and proxies. IIRC 'current_user' is a proxy pushed onto the request context.

http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/0.12/reqcontext/

-Spencer

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On Apr 11, 2017, at 8:44 AM, "badrihippo at gmail.com<mailto:badrihippo at gmail.com>" <badrihippo at gmail.com<mailto:badrihippo at gmail.com>> wrote:

I know I figured this out sometime, but can't remember now. How does one make a variable that is automatically accessible to all views?

I mean like the current_user variable provided by Flask-Admin: it automatically calculates current_user and makes it available to the view for each request, without having to manually define it each time.

Basically, make it so that instead of...

@app.route('/example')
def example():
    my_var = something()

@app.route('/example/2')
def second_example():
    my_var = something()

...it automatically calculates my_var without having to manually define it in each view.

Okay, I hope that was clear. And thanks in advance!

-Badri/Hippo
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