Built in routes command

[kissgyorgy]

I don't want to spam the builtin command namespace (anyway, why not? Django have a lot of builtin commands and works pretty well) but this is the first command I always implement when I start using flask, and my collegues were doing this also.
It shows all the endpoints registered for the app. Routes can be ordered by rules, endpoints and methods.
This is a WIP, because I did not wrote tests for it yet and did not tried with 2.6 and 2.7.
I would like to have some feedback on this and I can work out the details.

[untitaker]

anyway, why not? Django have a lot of builtin commands and works pretty well

Django has a lot of stuff that works surprisingly well, but that's a bad argument.

I like the command, but what exactly are you using it for?

[kissgyorgy]

• If you register a bunch of blueprints on the app, it's harder to track down the exact URLs.
• You don't always know all the routes, e.g. third party blueprints, extensions.
• When I worked in a team, it was really handy to see what new views the others guys were writing.
• I subclassed Flask, so I don't need to write app.route() all the time, (e.g. I just can give it a simple html files, and it automatically makes a view), this commands still shows everything.
• Django and Pyramid have an overview of the routes in a central place (ursl.py and configurator) which I think is nice.

[mattupstate]

print(app.url_map)

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[wshayes]

+1 I agree - one of the first things I add as well - just nice to get an overview since the routes are spread all over

[kissgyorgy]

I rebased it to master

[jirikuncar]

What about creating a package (e.g. Flask-Routes) that would register such command and you can just add an requirement to your project?

    entry_points={
        'flask.commands': [
            'routes = flask_routes:routes',
        ],
    },

[kissgyorgy]

What about creating a package (e.g. Flask-Routes) that would register such command and you can just add an requirement to your project?

You would rather "left-paddify" this simple command? I think that's a bad idea to make such a simple thing a dependency rather than include it as a command. To quote Rob Pike: "A little copying is better than a little dependency."

[davidism]

Thanks for starting this. I liked the general idea but decided to rework it in #2259.