In Flask convert form POST object into a representation suitable for mongodb

Question

I am using Flask and MongoDB. I am trying to convert the content of request.form into something suitable for saving via PyMongo. It seems like something that should come up

Answer 1

The Flask ImmutableMultiDict data structure has a built in to_dict method.

This knowledge in addition to the Flask request object form property being an ImmutableMultiDict allows for simple handling of a form POST request to MongoDB.

See below for a naive example:

from flask import request

@app.route('/api/v1/account', methods=['POST'])
def create_account():
    """Create user account"""
    account_dict = request.form.to_dict()

    db.account.insert_one(account_dict)