Python Flask: execute code before every request
Sometime there is some code that you would like to run at the beginning of every request. Insead of insert the same code everywhere or event just inserting a function call in every route handler, Flask has an easy way to accomplish this using the before_request hook.
examples/flask/before_request/app.py
from flask import Flask app = Flask(__name__) @app.before_request def before_request(): app.logger.info("before_request") @app.route("/") def main(): app.logger.info("main route") return "Hello World!"
Run as:
FLASK_APP=app FLASK_DEBUG=1 flask run
Output on the console:
[2020-06-22 23:24:56,675] INFO in app: before_request [2020-06-22 23:24:56,675] INFO in app: main route 127.0.0.1 - - [22/Jun/2020 23:24:56] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 -
Published on 2020-06-23