Flask-SQLAlchemy Constructor

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In most cases not defining a constructor in your model class gives you the correct behavior.

Flask-SQLAlchemy’s base model class (which is also SQLAlchemy’s declarative base class) defines a constructor that just takes **kwargs and stores all the arguments given, so it isn’t really necessary to define a constructor.

If you do need to define a constructor to do some model specific initialization, then do so as follows:

class User(db.Model):
    id = db.Column(db.Integer, primary_key=True)
    username = db.Column(db.String(80), unique=True)
    email = db.Column(db.String(120), unique=True)

    def __init__(self, **kwargs):
        super(User, self).__init__(**kwargs)
        # do custom initialization here

By letting the base class handle the **kwargs you free yourself from the complexity of initializing the fields of the model.

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