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Flask-Admin - Is there a more efficient way to add views to ModelView?


I read several articles however it is not the best way to save all those lines:

admin = Admin(app, name='talkcode', template_mode='bootstrap3')
admin.add_view(ModelView(User, db.session))
admin.add_view(ModelView(Personal_User, db.session))
admin.add_view(ModelView(Curriculum_User, db.session))
admin.add_view(ModelView(Skills, db.session))
admin.add_view(ModelView(Question, db.session))
admin.add_view(ModelView(TagQuestion, db.session))
admin.add_view(ModelView(AnswerLong, db.session))
admin.add_view(ModelView(Snippet, db.session))
admin.add_view(ModelView(TagSnippet, db.session))
admin.add_view(ModelView(CommentSnippet, db.session))
path = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'static')
admin.add_view(FileAdmin(path, '/static/', name='Static Files'))

Solution

  • No, this is the right way to create your views.

    For large projects, it is a good idea to extend the Admin class to clean up your code.

    class _Admin(Admin):
        def add_model_view(self, model):
            self.add_view(ModelView(model, db.session))
    
        def add_model_views(self, models):
            for model in models:
                self.add_model_view(model)
    
    
    admin.add_model_views([
        User, Personal_User, Curriculum_User,
        Skills, Question, TagQuestion,
        AnswerLong, Snippet, TagSnippet, CommentSnippet,
    ])