Enhanced Flask session and error management

📅 2024-02-17 — Session: Enhanced Flask session and error management

🕒 19:00–20:10
🏷️ Labels: Flask, Session Management, Error Handling, Web Development, Python
📂 Project: Dev
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM

Session Goal

The session aimed to improve session management and error handling in a Flask application, focusing on user interactions, session persistence, and error resolution.

Key Activities

• Implemented error handling for the /submit_answer route, including session initialization and frontend adjustments.
• Logged user session data and provided feedback templates using Python’s print function.
• Troubleshot user session issues, focusing on user ID retrieval during login and submission processes.
• Explored session persistence with Google OAuth, detailing session cookie management.
• Developed logout functionality to clear sessions and redirect users using Google OAuth.
• Managed cookies and session persistence strategies in Flask applications.
• Resolved KeyError in user session handling by adjusting session dictionary keys.
• Addressed critical issues in rendering templates and implementing missing methods in the Evaluator class.
• Updated the OpenAI API model in the Evaluator class to handle deprecation.
• Enhanced user interaction recording by modifying the record_interaction function and updating routes.
• Handled JSON special characters and resolved Flask form issues related to exercise_id.

Achievements

• Improved session management and error handling in the Flask application.
• Enhanced user feedback mechanisms and session persistence strategies.
• Successfully updated API models and resolved critical application errors.

Pending Tasks

• Further refine session management strategies, especially under server restarts.
• Continue monitoring for any additional KeyErrors or session inconsistencies.