kuehn-innerste / birthdayreminder

First project in context of #100daysofcode

Birthdayreminder

In the choir where I sing we have a list of all singers, together with their birthdays. Sometimes we forget to sing someone the birthday song.

In this little project I want to set up a small database and have a restful access to the members and their birthdays.

REST

/members/ List of all members with birthdays, sort by first name /birthdays List of all members with birthdays, sort by date /birthdays/last?count=12 List of 12 birthdays, from now back in time

Requirements

1. Get a list of all members sort by first or surname.
2. Get a list of all members sort by birthday, starting jan 1st.
3. Get a list of all members having birthday between now and 2 weeks ago
4. Add a member with birthday
5. Update / correct member or birthday

Notes

flask

After creating the flask-install there was this message:

./manage.py runserver

For safety's sake, this defaults to a production config with DEBUG turned off.
You can change the config by setting the APP_CONFIG
environment variable to "development" in your shell:
export APP_CONFIG=development

Flask extensions being used

• flask-wtf: Flask-WTF is for web forms
• flask-sqlalchemy: a SQL ORM for different SQL databases (MySQL, SQLite, PostgreSQL...)
• flask-migrate: Wrapper for Alembic, a database migration framework for SQLAlchemy.

flask security

With WTForms we use the {{ form.hidden_tag() }} in the template to include some CSRF forgery. Using this together with a SECRET_KEY defined for the Flask configuration is enough for this.