File Upload in Restful Flask

[Simmo]

On 20/07/2015 11:13, subhabrata.banerji at gmail.com wrote:
> Dear Group,
>
> I am trying to learn Rest framework through Restful Flask.
> My initial exercises went fine with https://flask-restful.readthedocs.org/en/0.3.3/quickstart.html
>
> Now I want to upload file through Restful Flask. I tried to check the web for reference.
> I got these urls,
> (i) http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/user/quickstart/#post-a-multipart-encoded-file
> (ii) http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28982974/flask-restful-upload-image
> (iii) http://blog.luisrei.com/articles/flaskrest.html
>
> But the question I am stuck with what are the things I have to change in the example of quickstart tutorial so that I may be able to upload file. Or if any one may kindly suggest with a small example.
>
> If any one of the esteemed members may kindly suggest.
>
> Regards,
> Subhabrata Banerjee.
>

I'm no expert on Python or REST but the example

	>>> url = 'http://httpbin.org/post'
	>>> files = {'file': open('report.xls', 'rb')}

	>>> r = requests.post(url, files=files)
	>>> r.text
         ...

seems quite straightforward so I would suggest substituting your URL for 
'http://httpbin.org' and your file name (possibly with full pathname) 
for 'report.xls'.

Give it a try and report back...

Steve S