Pass another object to the main flask application
Take a look at application factories, which should do what you're looking for. You'd create a factory that returned your Flask app that you'd send the logger to - something like this:
def create_app(logger_instance):
app = Flask(__name__)
app.config['LOGGER'] = logger_instance
return app
And then in your runserver.py, you'd create and pass in the logger:
from yourapp import create_app
if __name__ == '__main__':
logger = MyProcess()
app = create_app(logger)
app.run()
Once that's done, your app can refer to the logger inside app.config['LOGGER']
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You might want to use flask app context for this
from flask import _app_ctx_stack
def getLogger():
appContext = _app_ctx_stack.top
logger = getattr(appContext, "Logger", None)
if logger is None:
logger = MyProcess()
appContext.Logger = logger
return logger
....
@app.route('/nb_trendy')
def nb_trendy():
logger = getLogger()
res = logger.get_trendy()
return jsonify(res)
more insight from Armin on that: https://speakerdeck.com/mitsuhiko/advanced-flask-patterns