upload using restful

[Jose]

Hi

How I can upload a file using RESTful api?

Jose

[Leonel Câmara]

Here's an example using requests

http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/user/quickstart/#post-a-multipart-encoded-file

Is this what you want?

[Jose]

Hi Leonel

How it is handled on the server (web2py app)?

[Dave S]

On Tuesday, November 24, 2015 at 8:33:20 AM UTC-8, Jose wrote:

Hi Leonel

How it is handled on the server (web2py app)?

Does this help explain it?

<URL:http://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/10/services#Restful-Web-Services>

I've used the SOAP service model successfully -- the RESTful subset, anyway -- but haven't done a pure REST service yet, but the book has a good description and you should be able to find some threads in the group archives with additional examples.

/dps
 

[Dave S]

I can now answer in more detail, as I've actually done it now.

After doing an upload page based on  the Image Blog example in Chapter 3, I moved on to RESTing on curl.  The Chapter 10 material was helpful, as was Chapter 6 under "More on uploads".

The archive has some older posts that helped me, and actually pushed me across the finish line:

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/web2py/9UO3lP7Jmgk/tv98DecbmCwJ

Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 12:25:24 +0000

Subject: Re: [web2py] Re: can we use JSONRPC to upload?

(From Antonio Ramos)

<URL:https://groups.google.com/d/msg/web2py/c2kxBRRKDqA/Tnq0dLAfxpAJ>

Subject: Re: [web2py] Re: Auto-generate PUT and DELETE methods

Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 20:42:17 -0700 (PDT)

(From Massimo)

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/web2py/vOPNCflxNPY/2CQLasbTXxoJ

Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:36:13 -0700 (PDT)

Subject: Re: Database administration - db upload field

From: mdipierro <mdip...@cs.depaul.edu>

(Massimo, earlier)

I'm using cStringIO.StringIO on the request data, but I'm sending binary (curl -H "Contnt-Type: application/octet-stream"), and the file is stored in uploads with a .txt extension, which makes Firefox think it should maybe open it with gedit (when right clicking from the appadmin page).  Saving the download to a file is okay, and I can untar a tar file, and another binary file compares okay, but it would be nice to get the type correct on download.

Also, I had to the use the "def POST(*args, **vars)" form, and couldn't figure out how to do it the parse_as_restfull() technique, partly because I couldn't figure out the URL and curl invocation to handle the file data.  Furthermore, the curl -T doesn't seem to be putting the local filename into the POST, whereas the SQLFORM does.  I have an fname field, which is redundant in the SQLFORM version, but is what I use in the RESTful upload.

So I finally did Yet Another Web2Py Trick.  The SQLFORM version took me half an hour or less, and then I broke things for a while trying to see what the POST url looked like, and then spent the rest of the afternoon on the REST.

/dps "YAW2PT-count++"