Ii am trying to get a rest POST for python up and running and continue to run into difficulties. I am getting the following error:

in the front:

POST http://localhost:5000/profit 500 (INTERNAL SERVER ERROR)
Test.vue?0465:55 this is the error from the python server  Error: Request failed with status code 500
    at createError (eval at <anonymous> (app.js:801), <anonymous>:16:15)
    at settle (eval at <anonymous> (app.js:882), <anonymous>:18:12)
    at XMLHttpRequest.handleLoad (eval at <anonymous> (app.js:780), <anonymous>:77:7)

in the back:

/home/patientplatypus/vuespring/backend_PYTHON3/env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/flask_sqlalchemy/__init__.py:839: FSADeprecationWarning: SQLALCHEMY_TRACK_MODIFICATIONS adds significant overhead and will be disabled by default in the future.  Set it to True or False to suppress this warning.
  'SQLALCHEMY_TRACK_MODIFICATIONS adds significant overhead and '
 * Serving Flask app "main"
 * Running on http://127.0.0.1:5000/ (Press CTRL+C to quit)
127.0.0.1 - - [12/Jun/2017 17:28:26] "OPTIONS /profit HTTP/1.1" 200 -
[2017-06-12 17:28:26,981] ERROR in app: Exception on /profit [POST]
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/patientplatypus/vuespring/backend_PYTHON3/env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/flask/app.py", line 1982, in wsgi_app
    response = self.full_dispatch_request()
  File "/home/patientplatypus/vuespring/backend_PYTHON3/env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/flask/app.py", line 1614, in full_dispatch_request
    rv = self.handle_user_exception(e)
  File "/home/patientplatypus/vuespring/backend_PYTHON3/env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/flask_cors/extension.py", line 161, in wrapped_function
    return cors_after_request(app.make_response(f(*args, **kwargs)))
  File "/home/patientplatypus/vuespring/backend_PYTHON3/env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/flask/app.py", line 1517, in handle_user_exception
    reraise(exc_type, exc_value, tb)
  File "/home/patientplatypus/vuespring/backend_PYTHON3/env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/flask/app.py", line 1612, in full_dispatch_request
    rv = self.dispatch_request()
  File "/home/patientplatypus/vuespring/backend_PYTHON3/env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/flask/app.py", line 1598, in dispatch_request
    return self.view_functions[rule.endpoint](**req.view_args)
  File "/home/patientplatypus/vuespring/backend_PYTHON3/main.py", line 48, in profits
    conn = psycopg2.connect(database = "money", user = "patientplatypus", password = "Fvnjty0b", host = "https://127.0.0.1", port = "5000")
  File "/home/patientplatypus/vuespring/backend_PYTHON3/env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/psycopg2/__init__.py", line 130, in connect
    conn = _connect(dsn, connection_factory=connection_factory, **kwasync)
OperationalError: could not translate host name "https://127.0.0.1" to address: Name or service not known

127.0.0.1 - - [12/Jun/2017 17:28:26] "POST /profit HTTP/1.1" 500 -




So somehow it does not like my psycopg2 connect pointing to 127.0.0.1, but I don't know what else to do. The psycopg2 database is hosted on the backend, and that is the address of the backend.....so.......


Here is the code I am working with at the moment. Thank you for the help.





from flask import Flask, request, jsonify
from flask_sqlalchemy import SQLAlchemy
from flask_cors import CORS, cross_origin
import sqlite3
import psycopg2

import os
from os.path import join, dirname
from dotenv import load_dotenv

from models.shared import db
from models.profits import Profit
#from models.race_unit import RaceUnit

dotenv_path = join(dirname(__file__), '.env')
load_dotenv(dotenv_path)

app = Flask(__name__)
CORS(app)
app.config['SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI'] = '%s://%s:%s@%s/%s' % (os.environ.get('DB_DRIVER'), os.environ.get('DB_USER'), os.environ.get('DB_PASSWORD'), os.environ.get('DB_HOST'), os.environ.get('DB_NAME'))

db.app = app
db.init_app(app)
# Create tables if they don't already exist
db.create_all()

@app.route('/')
def index():
    return 'At Index of Python Backend'

@app.route('/profit', methods=['POST','GET'])
def profits():
    if request.method=='POST':
        conn = psycopg2.connect(database = "money", user = "patientplatypus", password = "Fvnjty0b", host = "https://127.0.0.1", port = "5000")
        cur = conn.cursor()
        cur.execute("INSERT INTO PROFITS (ID,NAME,DESCRIPTION) VALUES (request.json['id'], request.json['name'], request.json['description']");

        conn.commit()
        print "Records created successfully";
        conn.close()
    if request.method=='GET':
        profits = [i.serialize for i in Profit.query.all()]
        return jsonify(profits)
if __name__ == '__main__':
    app.run(debug=True)