Impossible to make href links work properly

I’m trying to make a web-page that displays a bunch of values from MongoDB, here is my code:

class LangCol(Col):             # This lets me get a webaddress into the table
    def td_format(self, content):
        parsed=urllib.parse.unquote(content)
        split = urlsplit(parsed)

        return ('<a href='+("".join(['http://',split.netloc, split.path]))+ '>'+content+'</a>')



class ItemTable(Table):
    ID = Col('IDs')
    type = Col("type")
    Job_URL = LangCol("URL")

items = mongodb.bdb.find({"OS" : "CentOS7.3"})
items2 = mongodb.bdb.find({"OS" : "RHEL7.3"})
# Get some objects
#class Item(object):
#    def __init__(self, name, description):
#        self.name = name
#        self.description = description
#items = [Item('Job1', 'Job1'),
#         Item('Job2', 'Job2'),
#         Item('Job3', 'Job3')]


app = Flask(__name__)

@app.route('/')
def index():
    table = ItemTable(items)
    table2 = ItemTable(items2)
    return table.__html__()

The relevant code is the return statement of LangCol I’ve tried other returns, such as (the one I REALLY hoped would worked)

return ('<a href='+content+ '>'+content+'</a>')

Unfortunately, no matter what I do, I either get a URL that includes my hosted flask server (like http://127.0.0.1:5000/http%3A//10.23.182.101%3A8080/job/(CHPC) Factory - CentOS 7.3 x86_TS/57/) or, if I unquote my weburl instead, it will truncate everything after part of my link (like http://10.23.182.101:8080/job/(CHPC) )

This issue is very frustrating, because the closest thing to a solution I’ve found looks like it should, but doesn’t work correctly.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17056408/flask-jinja2-href-not-linking-correctly

As we can see, content displays the exact URL correctly on the page. I want this exact URL to be a clickable hyperlink to the address that it prints. Unfortunately, this seems to be impossible.

I’m an intern at a large tech company which probably makes your CPU, and I (along with my team) am very inexperienced with web technologies. Apologies if I’m doing something silly and don’t notice it.

[plumdog]

@CheapB You are absolutely right.

I’ve added an example here: https://github.com/plumdog/flask_table/pull/116 that I think does what you want.

That example gives output that looks like

<table>
  <thead><tr><th>URL</th></tr></thead>
  <tbody>
    <tr><td><a href="https://google.com">Google</a></td></tr>
    <tr><td><a href="https://yahoo.com">Yahoo</a></td></tr>
  </tbody>
</table>

which becomes:

URL
Google
Yahoo

It might be worth flask_table growing a dedicated column class that does something like this.

[CheapB]

That is EXACTLY what I was going for. I am working on getting all my templates moved to Flask Table and this is a huge step in the right direction. Thank you very much.