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Flask Dashboard Creation Steps

The document outlines the setup procedure for a Flask project named 'flask_dashboard', including configuration for database connection, model definition, and database initialization. It provides step-by-step instructions for creating the database, inserting JSON data into a MySQL table, and running the Flask server. Additionally, it mentions the need to create API routes to fetch and display data in JSON format.

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Flask Dashboard Creation Steps

The document outlines the setup procedure for a Flask project named 'flask_dashboard', including configuration for database connection, model definition, and database initialization. It provides step-by-step instructions for creating the database, inserting JSON data into a MySQL table, and running the Flask server. Additionally, it mentions the need to create API routes to fetch and display data in JSON format.

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Procedure setup for the project "flask_dashboard":

1) config.py

import os

DB_HOST = "localhost" # Change if using a remote DB


DB_USER = "root" # Your MySQL username
DB_PASSWORD = "@Abhinavsql123" # Your MySQL password
DB_NAME = "dashboard_db" # Your database name
DB_PORT = 3306 # Default MySQL port

2) models.py

from main import db

# Define a model based on JSON structure


class DataEntry(db.Model):
id = db.Column(db.Integer, primary_key=True)
end_year = db.Column(db.String(10))
intensity = db.Column(db.Integer)
sector = db.Column(db.String(255))
topic = db.Column(db.String(255))
insight = db.Column(db.Text)
url = db.Column(db.String(500))
region = db.Column(db.String(255))
start_year = db.Column(db.String(10))
impact = db.Column(db.String(10))
added = db.Column(db.String(50))
published = db.Column(db.String(50))
country = db.Column(db.String(255))
relevance = db.Column(db.Integer)
pestle = db.Column(db.String(255))
source = db.Column(db.String(255))
title = db.Column(db.Text)
likelihood = db.Column(db.Integer)

def __repr__(self):
return f"<DataEntry {self.title}>"

3) main.py

from flask import Flask


from flask_sqlalchemy import SQLAlchemy

app = Flask(__name__)
app.config["SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI"] = "mysql+pymysql://root:
%40Abhinavsql123@localhost/dashboard_db"

app.config["SQLALCHEMY_TRACK_MODIFICATIONS"] = False

db = SQLAlchemy(app) # ✅ Initialize db after app

if __name__ == "__main__":
from models import DataEntry
app.run(debug=True)
4) init_db.py

from main import app, db


from models import DataEntry

with app.app_context():
db.create_all()
print("✅ Database tables created successfully!")

5) ## Open MySQL and create the database in the SQL commandline client

--> CREATE DATABASE dashboard_db;

6) ## Now create the table named "DataEntry" using this script in the vscode
terminal

--> python init_db.py

7) ## Check in the MySQL commandline client whether the table is created or not

--> USE dashboard_db;


--> DESC data_entry;

8) Run and check whether the flask server is running

--> python main.py

9) ## Since the table is created, we have to insert json data into the table

--> data_loader.py(code):

import json
from main import db, app
from models import DataEntry

# Load JSON data from the file


with open("jsondata.json", "r", encoding="utf-8") as file:
data = json.load(file) # Parse JSON file

# Function to convert empty strings to None (NULL in MySQL)


def clean_value(value, is_int=False):
if value == "" or value is None:
return None
return int(value) if is_int else value # Convert to int if required

# Insert data into MySQL


with app.app_context():
for entry in data:
new_entry = DataEntry(
end_year=clean_value(entry.get("end_year")),
intensity=clean_value(entry.get("intensity"), is_int=True),
sector=clean_value(entry.get("sector")),
topic=clean_value(entry.get("topic")),
insight=clean_value(entry.get("insight")),
url=clean_value(entry.get("url")),
region=clean_value(entry.get("region")),
start_year=clean_value(entry.get("start_year")),
impact=clean_value(entry.get("impact")),
added=clean_value(entry.get("added")),
published=clean_value(entry.get("published")),
country=clean_value(entry.get("country")),
relevance=clean_value(entry.get("relevance"), is_int=True),
pestle=clean_value(entry.get("pestle")),
source=clean_value(entry.get("source")),
title=clean_value(entry.get("title")),
likelihood=clean_value(entry.get("likelihood"), is_int=True)
)
db.session.add(new_entry) # Add to session

db.session.commit() # Commit all changes


print("✅ JSON Data Successfully Inserted into MySQL!")

10) ## Now run this command to load the json data successfully

--> python data_loader.py

11) Check whether the data is inserted or not

--> USE dashboard_db;


--> SELECT insight FROM data_entry LIMIT 5;

12) ## Now we have to create Flask API routes to fetch and display the data in JSON
format.

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