Flask throwing 'working outside of request context' when starting sub thread

Question

I am trying to start a new thread in Python inside of a Flask application. I am doing background work that gets triggered by the request, but I don\'t need to wait for the

Answer 1

You can copy the desired info and pass it on:

@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(data):
        # Use the data in subprocess
    data = request.get_json()  # copy the data
    thread.start_new_thread(handle_sub_view, data)
    return "Thanks"