Dynamically generate Flask routes

Question

I am trying to dynamically generate routes in Flask from a list. I want to dynamically generate view functions and endpoints and add them with add_url_rule.

Answer 1

This is how i got it to work @this-vidor and @PZP, the get page method is querying an sqlite db (but it could be any db), the generic function def is being looped over and in my actual code list of dictionaries is also being pulled from a db. So basically what I accomplished what I needed. The routes are dynamic. I can turn the routes on and off in the sql with out having to go to app.py to edit them.

defaultPage = "/"

@app.route(defaultPage)
def index():
    page = getPage(defaultPage)
    return render_template("index.html", page=page)



routes = [
    dict(route="/", func="index", page="index"),
    dict(route="/about", func="about", page="about")
]

def generic():
    rule = request.url_rule
    page = getPage(rule)
    return render_template('index.html', page=page)

for route in routes:
    app.add_url_rule(
        route["route"], #I believe this is the actual url
        route["page"] # this is the name used for url_for (from the docs)
    )
    app.view_functions[route["func"]] = generic`