Handling Users

[markgalup]

Hi Robert,

Thank you very much for your excellent book. My apologies in advance if this is an obvious answer as I am somewhat new to flask. In this chapter, it seems you describe several account creation methods - "create_account" and "signup" to be specific - which don't appear to work together. Also, you only describe a User model once, and it only contains columns for 'username' and '_password', whereas earlier you mention creating an instance of the User class with 'email' and 'password', as well as an 'email_confirmed' boolean. I am confused as to if this chapter is meant to have any coherence throughout the code samples or if I am missing the logic. I see most of the snippets building off of eachother and then some not at all.

Thanks for your thoughts in advance, Mark

[martinbel]

I think in views.py you can add the email_confirmed = False value.

...
def create_account():
    form = EmailPasswordForm()
    if form.validate_on_submit():
        user = User(
            email = form.email.data,
            email_confirmed = False,
            password = form.password.data
        )

        db.session.add(user)
        db.session.commit()

Then def confirm_email(token): should be just an update where this is changed to False. Would this be enough @rpicard?

[rpicard]

@markgalup The chapter isn't meant to have coherence through the code samples. Each is just meant to illustrate a specific point.

[rpicard]

@martinbel I think it's easier to specify the default value of False for the email_confirmed column in the database model, but however it gets set works.