How can I get current base URI in flask? [duplicate]

Question

In below code, i want to store URL in a variable to check error on which URL error occured.

@app.route('/flights', methods=['GET'])
def get_flight():
    flight_data= mongo.db.flight_details
    info = []
    for index in flight_data.find():
        info.append({'flight_name': index['flight_name'], 'flight_no': index['flight_no'], 'total_seat': index['total_seat'] })
    if request.headers['Accept'] == 'application/xml':
        template = render_template('data.xml', info=info)
        xml_response = make_response(template)
        xml_response.headers['Accept'] = 'application/xml'
        logger.info('sucessful got data')
        return xml_response
    elif request.headers['Accept'] == 'application/json':
        logger.info('sucessful got data')
        return jsonify(info)

Output:

* Restarting with stat
 * Debugger is active!
 * Debugger PIN: 165-678-508
 * Running on http://127.0.0.1:5000/ (Press CTRL+C to quit)
127.0.0.1 - - [28/Mar/2017 10:44:53] "GET /flights HTTP/1.1" 200 -

I want this message

"127.0.0.1 - - [28/Mar/2017 10:44:53] "GET /flights HTTP/1.1" 200 -"

should be stored in a variable or how can I get current URL that is executing?

Answer 1

Use flask.request.url to retrieve your requested url. Have a look at: http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/1.0/api/#flask.Request (or the v0.12 docs)

Answer 2

You can use the base_url method on flask's request function.

from flask import Flask, request

app = Flask(__name__)

@app.route('/foo')
def index():
    return request.base_url
    

if __name__ == '__main__':
    app.run()

This returns the following if the app route is /foo:

http://localhost:5000/foo