def create_app(_config_dir=None, _config_filename='settings.cfg', _configspec_filename='configspec.cfg'):
# Create Flask app
global app
app = Flask("CheshireCat")
if _config_dir is not None:
default_config_dirs.insert(0, _config_dir)
configspec_path = get_first_file_that_exists(default_config_dirs, _configspec_filename)
config_path = get_first_file_that_exists(default_config_dirs, _config_filename)
if configspec_path is None:
raise FileNotFound('configspec', default_config_dirs, _configspec_filename)
if config_path is None:
raise FileNotFound('config', default_config_dirs, _config_filename)
# Load configuration file
configspec = ConfigObj(configspec_path, list_values=False)
config = ConfigObj(config_path, configspec=configspec)
test = config.validate(Validator(), copy=True)
for key in config['CORE']:
app.config[key] = config['CORE'][key]
# Change the session interface to be more secure and portalble than the default
# which is provided by Werkzeug.
# These break the engine currently. I don't know why.
#app.session_interface = RedisSignedSessionInterface()
#app.session_interface = ItsdangerousSessionInterface()
# Flask-Login manages user sessions for us, but we need to set it up first, so
# we'll do so here.
global login_manager
login_manager = LoginManager()
login_manager.init_app(app)
# Initialize our database
dbconfig = config['CORE']['DATABASE']
db = MongoDBWrapper(dbconfig['HOST'], int(dbconfig['PORT']), dbconfig['DB_NAME'])
db.init_db()
if len(db.get_all_users_with_role('administrator')) == 0:
db.create_user('admin', hash_password('admin'), '*****@*****.**', 'administrator')
# Initialize CheshireCat
# Import the views, to apply the decorators which use the global app object.
from . import views
