Moved from flaskAPI to regular flask. Started reworking SQL queries from sql.text to straight sqlalchemy ORM. Login, listShows, register methods have been reworked to comply. Also have listShows returning nicely formatted json now.

main.py

@@ -1,11 +1,37 @@
-import database as db
 import feedparser as fp
-from flask import jsonify
+from flask import Flask, jsonify
-from flask_api import FlaskAPI, status, exceptions
+from flask_sqlalchemy import SQLAlchemy
+app = Flask(__name__)
+
+app.config['SQLALCHEMY_TRACK_MODIFICATIONS'] = False
+app.config['SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI'] = 'mysql+pymysql://pc:pc@67.149.14.121:3306/Podcast'
+
+db = SQLAlchemy(app)
 
 
-app = FlaskAPI(__name__)
+class users(db.Model):
+    userID = db.Column(db.Integer, primary_key=True)
+    username = db.Column(db.Text, unique=True)
+    password = db.Column(db.Text)
+    name = db.Column(db.Text)
+    name = db.Column(db.Text)
+    email = db.Column(db.Text)
 
+class shows(db.Model):
+    showID = db.Column(db.Integer, primary_key=True)
+    podcastID = db.Column(db.Integer)
+    userID = db.Column(db.Integer)
+    link = db.Column(db.Text)
+    started = db.Column(db.Boolean)
+    position = db.Column(db.Text)
+
+
+class podcasts(db.Model):
+    podcastID = db.Column(db.Integer, primary_key=True)
+    userID = db.Column(db.Integer)
+    title = db.Column(db.Text)
+    URL = db.Column(db.Text)
+    artworkURL = db.Column(db.Text)
 
 @app.route('/', methods=['GET'])
 def index():
@@ -16,10 +42,11 @@ def login():
     username = 'Dan'
     password = 'password'
 
-    query = db.sql.text(""" select userID from Users where username = \'%s\'""" % username)
+    try:
-    result = db.con.execute(query).fetchone()
+        user = Users.query.filter_by(username=username).first()
-
+    except:
-    return jsonify(result[0])
+        jsonify({'message': 'Login Failed'})
+    return jsonify(userid=user.userID)
 
 
 @app.route('/updateFeeds/<int:userID>/', methods={'GET'})
@@ -97,44 +124,32 @@ def addFeed(userID,newURL):
 
 @app.route('/listShows/<int:userID>/', methods=['GET'])
 def listShows(userID):
-    podcasts=[]
+    output = []
-    pc=""
     y = 0
 # grabs podcast urls from logged in user
-    query = db.sql.text("""select podcastID, title from Podcasts where userID = %i""" % userID)
+    mreh = podcasts.query.filter_by(userID=userID).all()
-    results = db.con.execute(query).fetchall()
-    for each in results:
-        # podcasts.append(results[y][0])
-        podcasts.append(results[y][1])
 
-        y=y+1
+    for each in mreh:
-    # x=0
+        result = {}
-    # for each2 in podcasts:
+        result['podcastID'] = each.podcastID
-    #     pc=jsonify(
+        result['Title'] = each.title
-    #         showID=podcasts[0][0],
+        output.append(result)
-    #         showname=podcasts[0][1]
-    #     )
-    #     x=x+1
-    #     return jsonify(pc)
-    return jsonify(podcasts)
 
-@app.route('/register/<string:username>,<string:password>,<string:name>,<string:email>', methods=['GET'])
+    return jsonify(shows=output)
+
+@app.route('/register/<string:username>&<string:password>&<string:name>&<string:email>', methods=['POST'])
 def register(username, password, name, email):
 # checks to see if the username already exists
-    query = db.sql.text("""select username from Users where username = \"%s\"""" % username)
+    if not users.query.filter_by(username=username).first():
-    exists = db.con.execute(query).fetchone()
+        new_user = users(username=username, password=password, name=name, email=email)
-# if the username doesn't already exist it will be added
+        db.session.add(new_user)
-    if exists is None or exists[0] != username:
+        db.session.commit()
-        query = db.sql.text(
-            """insert into Users (username, password, name, email) values(\"%s\", \"%s\", \"%s\", \"%s\") """ % (
-            username, password, name, email))
-        db.con.execute(query)
         # Returns the new userID
-        query = db.sql.text(""" select userID from Users where username = \'%s\'""" % username)
+        newID = users.query.filter_by(username=username).first()
-        result = db.con.execute(query).fetchone()
+        return jsonify(userid=newID.userID)
-        return jsonify(result[0])
+# if the username doesn't already exist it will be added
     else:
-        return "Username already exists"
+        return jsonify(message='Username already exists')
 
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":