Seperate Database for flask admin - flask

Question

can anyone tell me, how to make a separate Database just for Flask admin and maybe flask security?
this is how i am working with my PostgreSQL database just to load some tables and perform CRUD:
import flask_admin
from flask import Flask
from sqlalchemy import create_engine
app =Flask(__name__)
engine = create_engine{'postgresql://name:password#localhost/tablesdatabase')
i wish to make a separate database for flask-admin :( this is what i am trying)
admin = flask_admin.Admin(app)
app.config['SQLALCHEMY_BINDS'] = {'admindb' : 'postgresql://name:password#localhost/adminedatabase'}
admin.add_view(ModelView) ? // how can i impelement this ? with a seperate datbase ?

Answer 1

There is no official support, but you can customize Flask-SQLalchemy session to use different connections, here the example for using master slave connections, you can easily add as many connections as you want
from functools import partial
from sqlalchemy import orm
from flask import current_app
from flask_sqlalchemy import SQLAlchemy, get_state
class RoutingSession(orm.Session):
def __init__(self, db, autocommit=False, autoflush=True, **options):
self.app = db.get_app()
self.db = db
self._bind_name = None
orm.Session.__init__(
self, autocommit=autocommit, autoflush=autoflush,
bind=db.engine,
binds=db.get_binds(self.app),
**options,
)
def get_bind(self, mapper=None, clause=None):
try:
state = get_state(self.app)
except (AssertionError, AttributeError, TypeError) as err:
current_app.logger.info(
'cant get configuration. default bind. Error:' + err)
return orm.Session.get_bind(self, mapper, clause)
# If there are no binds configured, use default SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI
if not state or not self.app.config['SQLALCHEMY_BINDS']:
return orm.Session.get_bind(self, mapper, clause)
# if want to user exact bind
if self._bind_name:
return state.db.get_engine(self.app, bind=self._bind_name)
else:
# if no bind is used connect to default
return orm.Session.get_bind(self, mapper, clause)
def using_bind(self, name):
bind_session = RoutingSession(self.db)
vars(bind_session).update(vars(self))
bind_session._bind_name = name
return bind_session
class RouteSQLAlchemy(SQLAlchemy):
def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
SQLAlchemy.__init__(self, *args, **kwargs)
self.session.using_bind = lambda s: self.session().using_bind(s)
def create_scoped_session(self, options=None):
if options is None:
options = {}
scopefunc = options.pop('scopefunc', None)
return orm.scoped_session(
partial(RoutingSession, self, **options),
scopefunc=scopefunc,
)
Than the default session will be master, when you want to select from slave you can call it directly, here the examples:
In your app:
from flask import Flask
from flask_sqlalchemy import SQLAlchemy
app = Flask(__name__)
app.config['SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI'] = 'postgresql:///master'
app.config['SQLALCHEMY_BINDS'] = {
'slave': 'postgresql:///slave'
}
db = RouteSQLAlchemy(app)
Select from master
session.query(User).filter_by(id=1).first()
Select from slave
session.using_bind('slave').query(User).filter_by(id=1).first()