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flash

Flashes a message to the next request. In order to remove the flashed message from the session and to display it to the user, the template has to call :func:get_flashed_messages.

def flash(
message: str,
category: str = "message"
) - > None

Flashes a message to the next request. In order to remove the flashed message from the session and to display it to the user, the template has to call :func:get_flashed_messages.

Parameters

NameTypeDescription
messagestrthe message to be flashed.
categorystr = "message"the category for the message. The following values are recommended: 'message' for any kind of message, 'error' for errors, 'info' for information messages and 'warning' for warnings. However any kind of string can be used as category.

Returns

TypeDescription
NoneNothing is returned; the message is stored in the session for the next request.