Create User

note

This tutorial assumes you already have a server.py file with Python Flask and PyMongo set up. If you haven't already, read the Overview before reading this section.

When a new user creates a Gameo account, we create and add this new user to the database with the following steps:

1. The request sends the user's email and name for the new user data.
2. The games and wishlist properties are initialized as empty arrays.
3. Finally, using the MongoDB method insert_one, we can add the new user to the database.

The code will be as follows:

@app.route('/user', methods=["POST"])

def add_user():

req_body = request.get_json()

post_data = {

'email': req_body['email'],

'name': req_body['name'],

'games': [],

'wishlist': [],

}

User.insert_one(post_data)

return jsonify({'user': post_data})