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"