Inside of a flask blueprint, i have:
frontend = Blueprint('frontend', __name__)
and the route to my index function is:
@frontend.route('/')
def index():
#code
This works fine but, I am trying to add a subdomain to the route, like so:
@frontend.route('/', subdomain='<var>')
def index(var):
But this breaks the app and the browser spits out (amongst other things):
werkzeug.routing.BuildError
BuildError: ('frontend.index', {}, None)
frontend.index is called out in my code in a few places in a url_for('frontend.index')
How can I get the url_for to work when I'm including a subdomain? The only thing in the documents I can find and I think might be relevant is this under http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/api/:
To integrate applications, Flask has a hook to intercept URL build errors through Flask.build_error_handler. The url_for function results in a BuildError when the current app does not have a URL for the given endpoint and values. When it does, the current_app calls its build_error_handler if it is not None, which can return a string to use as the result of url_for (instead of url_for‘s default to raise the BuildError exception) or re-raise the exception. An example:
def external_url_handler(error, endpoint, **values):
"Looks up an external URL when `url_for` cannot build a URL."
# This is an example of hooking the build_error_handler.
# Here, lookup_url is some utility function you've built
# which looks up the endpoint in some external URL registry.
url = lookup_url(endpoint, **values)
if url is None:
# External lookup did not have a URL.
# Re-raise the BuildError, in context of original traceback.
exc_type, exc_value, tb = sys.exc_info()
if exc_value is error:
raise exc_type, exc_value, tb
else:
raise error
# url_for will use this result, instead of raising BuildError.
return url
app.build_error_handler = external_url_handler
However, I am new to python (and programming) and can not understand where I would put this code or how I would get that function to call when a builderror occurs.
Any insight would be greatly appreciated :)