[Python] Flask out of application context

I have an issue with app factories in Flask.

This is my tree:

.
├── Pipfile
├── app
│ ├── Dockerfile
│ ├── __init__.py
│ ├── blueprints
│ │ ├── __init__.py
│ │ ├── auth
│ │ │ └── __init__.py
│ │ └── accounts
│ │ ├── __init__.py
│ │ ├── models.py
│ ├── config.py
│ ├── enums.py
│ ├── extensions.py
│ ├── helpers
│ │ ├── __init__.py
│ │ ├── auth.py
│ ├── repositories
│ │ ├── __init__.py
│ │ ├── accounts.py
├── client_secrets.json
├── instance
│ ├── app.db
├── requirements.txt
└── run.py


in app.py/__init__.py I have this:

from flask import Flask
from .config import Config
from .blueprints import register_blueprints
from .extensions import register_extensions
import app.config

def create_app(config_object=config.ProdConfig):
app = Flask(__name__)
app.config.from_object(config_object)
with app.app_context():
register_extensions(app)
register_blueprints(app)
return app



Inside my accounts blueprint I imported a Class called AccountRepository (an interface ontop of the accounts model, to make CRUD operations), like so:

from app.repositories.accounts import AccountRepository


So when people access the create endpoint for e.g, I do

AccountRepository.create_account(x,y,z)


However, I get an out of context error, because some values are coming from the config as defaults:

def create_account(name, max_plays=current_app.config["DEFAULT_MAX_PLAY"]):
RuntimeError: Working outside of application context.

This typically means that you attempted to use functionality that needed
the current application. To solve this, set up an application context
with app.app_context(). See the documentation for more information.


Just to make things clear: the error happens when I try accessing the config from the repository file..

App factory registers the accounts BP -> Account BP imports the account repo -> account repo tries reading from app config (ERROR)

Why does it happen? I'm registering BPs using app context and I'm referencing it using current_app..

Thx!

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