Is it possible to clone a request to use it later?

Question

Is it possible to clone the flask.request object to use it later? I want to send the cloned request to another thread to repeat the same job. How can I put the cloned object on top of the request stack?

Answer 1

It is as simple as copying environ object. It has a copy() method that does the trick:

environ = flask.request.environ.copy()

Now you can use app.request_context to push a new context (with the cloned environ) to the flask context stack:

with app.request_context(environ):
    ...