flask RuntimeError: Working outside of request context. code example

Example: raise RuntimeError(_request_ctx_err_msg) RuntimeError: Working outside of request context

@app.route('/my_endpoint', methods=['POST'])
def my_endpoint_handler():
    #do tracking in sub-thread so we don't hold up the page
    def handle_sub_view(req):
        with app.test_request_context():
            from flask import request
            request = req
            # Do Expensive work
    thread.start_new_thread(handle_sub_view, (request))
    return "Thanks"