How to call self method and get data in flask?

Question

I want to call app.route method from another app.route method. As an example the code look like this simply. I want to call getMethod() function inside the postMethod() function. How can I do this?

@app.route('/ex1')
def getMethod():
    return "some value"

@app.route('/ex2', methods=['POST'])
def postMethod():
    # want to call getMethod() and get the return value
    # save data to database
    return jsonify('created'), 201

run it as normal function `getMethod()`. Or code which you need in both functions put in separated function and run this function in `getMethod()` and `postMethod()` — furas, Aug 25 '19 at 19:05

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 25 '19 at 20:56

Going by the solution here

A possible solution will be to create a normal function without the decorator, then call it at the different places where you want to.

@app.route('/ex1')
def getMethod():
    return commonMethod()

def commonMethod():
    return "some value"

@app.route('/ex2', methods=['POST'])
def postMethod():
    result = commonMethod()
    return jsonify('created'), 201

How to call self method and get data in flask?

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