Remote File Upload Api

[cj]

Hey,

I have a desktop application that needs to send multiple files to my
server and obviously I don't want it to have direct access to the
server. So I'm trying to think of the best way of building an api in
web2py. Has anyone else done this before ?

Many thanks,

CJ

[Massimo Di Pierro]

do have only one desktop app or many apps?

[cj]

There are many desktop apps, each user has one.

[Massimo Di Pierro]

You can run any service you want using the web2py -R option. The
question is how to secure the communication and authenticate the users.
Since the point of your question is not to use https, I do not know.
There are too many variables. If you app includes openssl I would use
tunnels, certificates and xmp-rpc over the tunnel.

Massimo

[cj]

What i was meaning in my first post is I don't want to give the
desktop app ftp details to the server. I was thinking xml-rpc....I
don't mind doing it as a post using https, but It's going to be
multiple uploads.

[Michael Wills]

Just note that Chilkat seems to only run on Windows. chilkat.py imports _chilkat which is a .pyd file which apparently only works on Windows.

On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 9:08 PM, cj <cjla...@googlemail.com> wrote:

I did find something interesting http://www.example-code.com/python/upload_asynchHttps.asp
/ http://chilkatsoft.com/

[cj]

Hi Michael,

I noticed that, I found http://blog.vixiom.com/2006/09/08/multiple-file-upload-with-flash-and-ruby-on-rails/
which is perfect, just trying to convert the RoR bit into web2py.

On Apr 16, 9:34 am, "Michael Wills" <mcwi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Just note that Chilkat seems to only run on Windows. chilkat.py imports
> _chilkat which is a .pyd file which apparently only works on

> Windows<http://www.python.org/doc/2.4.4/dist/python-terms.html>
> .

>
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 9:08 PM, cj <cjlaz...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> > I did find something interesting
> >http://www.example-code.com/python/upload_asynchHttps.asp

> > /http://chilkatsoft.com/

[Massimo Di Pierro]

Hi CJ,

the ruby code from the web page below

class DataFile < ActiveRecord::Base

  def self.save(data, name, directory)

    # create the file path

    path = File.join(directory, name)

    # write the file

    File.open(path,‘wb’) do |file|

      file.puts data.read

    end

  end

end

class UploadController < ApplicationController

  def index

    # capture incoming file params from flash

    data = params[:Filedata]

    name = params[:Filename]

    # the directory in which to save the file

    directory = ‘public/uploads’

    # save the file

    @data_file = DataFile.save(data, name, directory)

    # there’s no view so render nothing

    render :nothing => true

  end

end

is already in web2py. So if you just have to do something like

     db.define_table('DataFile',SQLField('Filename'),SQLField('Filedata','upload'))

     def index(): return SQLFORM(db.DataFile).accepts(request.vars,formname=None)

you get exactly the same functionality as the above ruby code + definition of the table + built-in security (the ruby code above is very insecure)!

Massimo

[Michael Wills]

I am looking forward to developing with web2py again soon! :-)