ELAB-partsearch/server.py

import json
import sqlalchemy
from flask import Flask
from flask import render_template

app = Flask(__name__)

db_engine = {}
db_metadata = {}

@app.route('/')
def index():
    return render_template('partsearch.html')

def connect(user, password, db, host='localhost', port=5432):
    '''Returns a connection and a metadata object'''
    # We connect with the help of the PostgreSQL URL
    url = 'postgresql://{}:{}@{}:{}/{}'
    url = url.format(user, password, host, port, db)

    # The return value of create_engine() is our connection object
    con = sqlalchemy.create_engine(url, client_encoding='utf8')

    # We then bind the connection to MetaData()
    meta = sqlalchemy.MetaData(bind=con, reflect=True)

    return con, meta

if __name__ == '__main__':
    with open('admin.json') as f:
        postgres_credentials = json.load(f)
    db_engine, db_metadata = connect(postgres_credentials['username'], postgres_credentials['password'], 'parts')