I am trying to make a call to an outside API that authenticates the user to some domain and returns an object B. This B object should be accessible across multiple view functions, but I don't want to instantiate it every request in before_request or store the auth information in the session or database because it is sensitive.
Based on this SO post I thought I might be able to use the g object, but I get AttributeError: '_AppCtxGlobals' object has no attribute 'B' when I try to access the object in another function.
The only thing that has worked so far is initializing B as a global variable, but that doesn't seem like good practice or secure.
How can I create and store this object so that it is accessible across multiple view functions?
@app.route('/login', methods=['GET', 'POST'])
def login():
if g.user is not None and g.user.is_authenticated():
return redirect(url_for('index'))
form = LoginForm()
if form.validate_on_submit():
email = form.email.data
pw = form.password.data
g.B = Bindings(domain='somewebsite.com', user=email, auth=pw)
return render_template('login.html', form=form)
@app.route('/devices')
def devices():
devices = g.B.get_all_devices()
return render_template('home/devices.html', devices=devices)
