Adding Check-in Attributes to Tickets
Recently, it was decided by the Open Event Orga App team that the event ticket API response from Open Event Server should have two additional attributes for specifying event check-in access. At first sight, it seemed that adding these options will only require changes in the orga app, but it turned out that the entire Ticket API from the server will need this addition. Implementing these attributes turned out to be quite straightforward. Specifically, the fields to be added were boolean is_checkin_restricted and auto_checkin_enabled. By default, checkin is not automatic and is restricted. Therefore, the default values for these fields were chosen to be True and False respectively. To add them, the ticket model file was changed first - due to the addition of these two columns: class Ticket(SoftDeletionModel): ... is_checkin_restricted = db.Column(db.Boolean) # <-- auto_checkin_enabled = db.Column(db.Boolean) # <-- ... def __init__(self, name=None, event_id=None, ... is_checkin_restricted=True, auto_checkin_enabled=False): self.name = name ... self.is_checkin_restricted = is_checkin_restricted self.auto_checkin_enabled = auto_checkin_enabled ... Since the ticket database model was updated, a migration had to be performed. Following shell commands (at the open event server project root) did the migration and database update and a migration file was then generated: $ python manage.py db migrate $ python manage.py db upgrade Here’s the generated migration file: from alembic import op import sqlalchemy as sa revision = '6440077182f0' down_revision = 'eaa029ebb260' def upgrade(): op.add_column('tickets', sa.Column('auto_checkin_enabled', sa.Boolean(), nullable=True)) op.add_column('tickets', sa.Column('is_checkin_restricted', sa.Boolean(), nullable=True)) def downgrade(): op.drop_column('tickets', 'is_checkin_restricted') op.drop_column('tickets', 'auto_checkin_enabled') The next code change was required in the ticket API schema. The change was essentially the same as the one added in the model file - just these 2 new fields were added: class TicketSchemaPublic(SoftDeletionSchema): ... id = fields.Str(dump_only=True) name = fields.Str(required=True) ... is_checkin_restricted = fields.Boolean(default=True) # <-- auto_checkin_enabled = fields.Boolean(default=False) # <-- event = Relationship(attribute='event', self_view='v1.ticket_event', self_view_kwargs={'id': '<id>'}, related_view='v1.event_detail', related_view_kwargs={'ticket_id': '<id>'}, schema='EventSchemaPublic', type_='event') ... Now all that remained were changes in the API documentation, which were made accordingly. This completed the addition of these two checkin attributes in the ticket API, and eventually made way to the orga app. And, these can be requested as usual by the front-end and user app as well. Resources and Links: Open Event Server pull request for checkin attributes Alembic documentation Marshmallow API Schema Reference
