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Quick Start
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Installation
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Install requirements:
$ mkvirtualenv <your-app-name>
$ pip install flask-security, flask-sqlalchemy
Basic Application
-----------------
The following code sample illustrates how to get started as quickly as possible
using SQLAlchemy.::
from flask import Flask, render_template
from flask.ext.sqlalchemy import SQLAlchemy
from flask.ext.security import Security, SQLAlchemyUserDatastore, \
UserMixin, RoleMixin
# Create app
app = Flask(__name__)
app.config['DEBUG'] = True
app.config['SECRET_KEY'] = 'super-secret'
app.config['SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI'] = 'sqlite://'
# Create database connection object
db = SQLAlchemy(app)
# Define models
roles_users = db.Table('roles_users',
db.Column('user_id', db.Integer(), db.ForeignKey('user.id')),
db.Column('role_id', db.Integer(), db.ForeignKey('role.id')))
class Role(db.Model, RoleMixin):
id = db.Column(db.Integer(), primary_key=True)
name = db.Column(db.String(80), unique=True)
description = db.Column(db.String(255))
class User(db.Model, UserMixin):
id = db.Column(db.Integer, primary_key=True)
email = db.Column(db.String(255), unique=True)
password = db.Column(db.String(255))
active = db.Column(db.Boolean())
confirmed_at = db.Column(db.DateTime())
roles = db.relationship('Role', secondary=roles_users,
backref=db.backref('users', lazy='dynamic'))
# Setup Flask-Security
user_datastore = SQLAlchemyUserDatastore(db, User, Role)
security = Security(app, user_datastore)
# Create a user to test with
@app.before_first_request
def create_user():
db.create_all()
user_datastore.create_user(email='matt@nobien.net', password='password')
db.session.commit()
# Views
@app.route('/')
def home():
return render_template('index.html')
if __name__ == '__main__':
app.run()
Mail Configuration
------------------
Flask-Security integrates with Flask-Mail to handle all email communications
between user and site, so it's important to configure Flask-Mail with your
email server details so Flask-Security can talk with Flask-Mail correctly.
The following code illustrates a basic setup, which could be added to the
basic application code in the previous section::
# At top of file
from flask_mail import Mail
# After 'Create app'
app.config['MAIL_SERVER'] = 'smtp.example.com'
app.config['MAIL_PORT'] = 465
app.config['MAIL_USE_SSL'] = True
app.config['MAIL_USERNAME'] = 'username'
app.config['MAIL_PASSWORD'] = 'password'
mail = Mail(app)
To learn more about the various Flask-Mail settings to configure it to work
with your particular email server configuration, please see the
`Flask-Mail documentation <http://packages.python.org/Flask-Mail/>`_