Code inside an event cannot access Flask's app context

[allansifuna]

I have a flask application as a client application and am using socketio.Client to connect it to the server. I have an event that data is passed into then the event writes the data into the database. I am using Flask_SQLAlchemy for the models. I am facing a major issue in that code inside the event cannot write or query the database using the models since its working outside the app context. I have tried pushing the app context using current_app from flask but that too throws the same Working outside of application context error. This used to work fine a while ago but with updates to Flask_SQLAlchemy required that access to models should have an application context. Has anyone faced the same issue or have any ideas of making the socketio events have access to the models?

[miguelgrinberg]

Have you tried using the actual application instance to push the app context instead of current_app? That's the correct way to do it.

[allansifuna]

Yeah that had worked but i was unsure if it was a good convention to do it that way since the project uses blueprints.

[miguelgrinberg]

This is a common misunderstanding a lot of Flask developers have. The current_app variable cannot do magic, it has no way to know what is your application, it only knows what the application is when an app context was already pushed.