[FIXED] Is there a way to easily define routes for multiple standard pages in Flask?

Issue

While making a web app in Flask, I'm finding I have a big list of views that look exactly like these:

@app.route('/home', methods=['GET'])
@require_login
def home():
    return render_template("home.html")

@app.route('/files', methods=['GET'])
@require_login
def files():
    return render_template("files.html")

Is there some way I could make a list like ['home','files'] and generate all of those simple views from it?

Solution

If routes and templates names match, you can do the following:

@app.route('/home', methods=['GET'])
@app.route('/files', methods=['GET'])
@require_login
def just_render():
    file_name = request.path.replace('/', '')
    template = '{file_name}.html'.format(file_name=file_name)

    return render_template(template)

i.e. get the requested path from request.path, remove unwanted / and then format the template name.

EDIT

To answer your question from the comments:

Is there any way I could compress the list of routes?

I would amend a bit @Sean Vieira's answer from the comments:

@app.route('/<path>', methods=['GET'])
@require_login
def just_render(path):
    if path in ['home', 'files', 'about', 'contact']:
         template = '{file_name}.html'.format(file_name=path)
         return render_template(template)

Answered By - Dušan Maďar