Updated the config example and modified the Flask app to correctly update its in-memory copy of the saved queries.

Author: Joe Kohlmann

flask/app.py

@@ -18,6 +18,9 @@ def write_query_to_cache(query, queries):
         queries.insert(0, query)
         if app.config["DEBUG"]:
             print "Adding %s to list of cached queries." % query
+    else:
+        print "Returning early since cached queries list is up-to-date on disk."
+        return
     # Write everything back. Yes, this is inefficient.
     input_file = codecs.open(cache_path, encoding="utf-8", mode="w")
     json.dump(queries, input_file)

flask/config_example.py

@@ -7,6 +7,19 @@ class Config(object):
     # NYT Article Search API Key
     # Request a key at http://developer.nytimes.com
     SEARCH_API_KEY = "PASTE_API_KEY_HERE"
+    CACHE_ROOT = os.path.join(
+        os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__)),
+        "static",
+        "cache"
+    )
+    ARTICLE_SEARCH_ROOT = os.path.join(
+        CACHE_ROOT,
+        "ArticleSearch"
+    )
+    QUERY_CACHE_PATH = os.path.join(
+        CACHE_ROOT,
+        "queries.json"
+    )
 
 
 class DevelopmentConfig(Config):

flask/static/cache/queries.json

@@ -1 +1 @@
-["persons:(\"JOBS, STEVEN P\") OR persons:(\"Jobs, Steve\")", "organizations:(\"Twitter\")", "subject:(\"Whistle-Blowers\")", "persons:(\"Manning, Bradley E\")", "organizations:(\"MICROSOFT CORP\") OR organizations:(\"Microsoft Corporation\")", "persons:(\"Bell, Kristen\")", "creative_works:(\"Veronica Mars (TV Program)\") OR creative_works:(\"Veronica Mars (Movie)\")", "organizations:(\"KICKSTARTER\") OR organizations:(\"KICKSTARTER.COM\")", "organizations:(\"Facebook Inc\") OR organizations:(\"FACEBOOK.COM\")", "organizations:(\"Google Inc\")", "subject:(\"Wearable Computing\")", "persons:(\"Putin, Vladimir V\")", "organizations:(\"APPLE COMPUTER INC\") OR organizations:(\"APPLE INC\")", "subject:(\"Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (2010)\")", "organizations:(\"University of Washington\")", "organizations:(\"University of Wisconsin-Madison\")", "organizations:(\"National Security Agency\")", "organizations:(\"WIKILEAKS\")", "persons:(\"Snowden, Edward J\")", "persons:(\"Assange, Julian\")", "glocations.contains:(\"Seattle\")", "glocations.contains:(\"Madison\")", "persons:(\"Obama, Barack\")", "subject:(\"Super Bowl\")", "organizations:(\"HARVARD UNIVERSITY\")"]
+["persons:(\"Christie, Christopher J\")", "persons:(\"Walker, Scott K\")", "glocations:(\"Madison (Wis)\")", "persons:(\"JOBS, STEVEN P\") OR persons:(\"Jobs, Steve\")", "organizations:(\"Twitter\")", "subject:(\"Whistle-Blowers\")", "persons:(\"Manning, Bradley E\")", "organizations:(\"MICROSOFT CORP\") OR organizations:(\"Microsoft Corporation\")", "persons:(\"Bell, Kristen\")", "creative_works:(\"Veronica Mars (TV Program)\") OR creative_works:(\"Veronica Mars (Movie)\")", "organizations:(\"KICKSTARTER\") OR organizations:(\"KICKSTARTER.COM\")", "organizations:(\"Facebook Inc\") OR organizations:(\"FACEBOOK.COM\")", "organizations:(\"Google Inc\")", "subject:(\"Wearable Computing\")", "persons:(\"Putin, Vladimir V\")", "organizations:(\"APPLE COMPUTER INC\") OR organizations:(\"APPLE INC\")", "subject:(\"Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (2010)\")", "organizations:(\"University of Washington\")", "organizations:(\"University of Wisconsin-Madison\")", "organizations:(\"National Security Agency\")", "organizations:(\"WIKILEAKS\")", "persons:(\"Snowden, Edward J\")", "persons:(\"Assange, Julian\")", "glocations.contains:(\"Seattle\")", "glocations.contains:(\"Madison\")", "persons:(\"Obama, Barack\")", "subject:(\"Super Bowl\")", "organizations:(\"HARVARD UNIVERSITY\")"]