Why is flask request not working?

Question

Flask

Hello. I have a page that sends a request with Ajax, when I try to get something with request it gives an error

AttributeError: 'function' object has no attribute '...'

My main.py:

import logging

from flask import Flask, request
app = Flask(__name__)


@app.route('/')
def index():
    """Return a friendly HTTP greeting."""
    return """
            <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.2.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
            <script>
                $(document).ready(function() {
                    $.ajax({
                        url: '/request',
                        type: 'post',
                        contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
                        data: {"test":"5"},
                        success: function (data) {
                            console.log(data);
                        }
                    });
                });
            </script>
        """


@app.route('/request', methods=['POST'])
def request():
    return request.method  # здесь выдает ошибку


@app.errorhandler(500)
def server_error(e):
    logging.exception('An error occurred during a request.')
    return """
    An internal error occurred: <pre>{}</pre>
    See logs for full stacktrace.
    """.format(e), 500


if __name__ == '__main__':
    # This is used when running locally. Gunicorn is used to run the
    # application on Google App Engine. See entrypoint in app.yaml.
    app.run(host='127.0.0.1', port=8080, debug=True)
# [END app]

Here is the text of the error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "F:\Other\Python3\lib\site-packages\flask\app.py", line 1997, in __call__
    return self.wsgi_app(environ, start_response)
  File "F:\Other\Python3\lib\site-packages\flask\app.py", line 1985, in wsgi_app
    response = self.handle_exception(e)
  File "F:\Other\Python3\lib\site-packages\flask\app.py", line 1540, in handle_exception
    reraise(exc_type, exc_value, tb)
  File "F:\Other\Python3\lib\site-packages\flask\_compat.py", line 33, in reraise
    raise value
  File "F:\Other\Python3\lib\site-packages\flask\app.py", line 1982, in wsgi_app
    response = self.full_dispatch_request()
  File "F:\Other\Python3\lib\site-packages\flask\app.py", line 1614, in full_dispatch_request
    rv = self.handle_user_exception(e)
  File "F:\Other\Python3\lib\site-packages\flask\app.py", line 1517, in handle_user_exception
    reraise(exc_type, exc_value, tb)
  File "F:\Other\Python3\lib\site-packages\flask\_compat.py", line 33, in reraise
    raise value
  File "F:\Other\Python3\lib\site-packages\flask\app.py", line 1612, in full_dispatch_request
    rv = self.dispatch_request()
  File "F:\Other\Python3\lib\site-packages\flask\app.py", line 1598, in dispatch_request
    return self.view_functions[rule.endpoint](**req.view_args)
  File "F:\Python projects\flask\main.py", line 45, in request
    return request.method  # здесь выдает ошибку
AttributeError: 'function' object has no attribute 'method'

Answer 1

In my opinion, we need to rename the endpoint function
@app.route('/request', methods=['POST'])
def request()