Registering models with Flask-Admin

In the previous recipe, we learned how to get started with the Flask-Admin extension to create admin interfaces/views for our application. In this recipe, we will examine how to implement admin views for our existing models with the facilities to perform CRUD operations.

Getting ready

We will extend our application from the previous recipe to include an admin interface for the User model.

How to do it…

Again, with Flask-Admin, registering a model with the admin interface is very easy; perform the following steps:

1. Just add the following single line of code to auth/views.py:

   from flask_admin.contrib.sqla import ModelView

   # Other admin configuration as shown in last recipe

   admin.add_view(ModelView(views.User, db.session))

Here, in the first line, we imported ModelView from flask_admin.contrib.sqla, which is provided by Flask-Admin to integrate SQLAlchemy models.

Looking at the screenshot corresponding to the first step...