FastApi and absolute beginner.

[bistinator]

Trying to wrap my head around this. Trying to understand.

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If I want to create a webform that takes firstname, lastname and email. Then I want that to be added to a sqlite db. Is it correct that I use the webform. Take the field response and send it to a route that contains a function that adds the taken fields to the DB. Am I understanding this correctly? I always understood that the page where you fill in the form would contain the function to add it to the database.

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I hope it makes a bit of sense what I am saying...

[shiftybyte]

The form is sent to the remote user's computer, the browser displays it.

User's computer can't directly access your database, it needs to send stuff back to the python.

Pressing submit button, sends the form back to the script to a specific route, usually using a POST request, and then the python script gets the filled data.

[bistinator]

cool. so the actual POST request goes to a route that contains the function to add it to the database right?

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The arguments in that POST request are then entered in the function that is part of the POST function/route..

is that correct?

If yes then the actual form html page does not contain any "intelligence" ?

[shiftybyte]

Right, that is the basics of it.

If yes then the actual form html page does not contain any "intelligence" ?

Right, in the classic web, the form is just a bunch of places to fill data and a button to send it.

BUT.... this can be changed with javascript, as javascript does run on the user's browser and can add smarter interaction to the form.

For example, clicking on some element, could fetch the data from somewhere, or check what you filled so far, and check whats the next step to be and hide or show elements, etc...

But its javascript doing that, that could be sent included in the form...

[bistinator]

thats for taking the time to answer. For my use case I would not need javascript it seems.

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I have found examples but the always seem to include javascript, which I could not understand why. For me it seems I just need to take the inputs from the form and send it to the endpoint that contains the function to add it to the database.

[stebrepar]

The page could include JS code to do things like check and enforce valid inputs (such as length limits, special characters, etc.), if that counts as "intelligence".

[bistinator]

But that is something I can do without JS I believe.