Falcon and falcon-multipart + POST request for uploading files implementation

Question

I'm trying to implement POST request for uploading files with Falcon framework (python).

I have used falcon-multipart in order to multipart/form-data, this allow me to retrieve my file in a cgi.FieldStorage() in which file is in binary format, but now, I need to write this file in a directory with the original extension.

This is the code I'm using.

app.py:

import falcon

from .files import Resource

from falcon_multipart.middleware import MultipartMiddleware

api = application = falcon.API(middleware=[MultipartMiddleware()])

files = Resource()
api.add_route('/files', files)

files.py:

import io
import os
import shutil

import falcon
import json


class Resource(object):

   _storage_path = './uploaded_files'

   def on_post(self, req, resp):
        """
        POST METHOD
        """
        # Retrieve file extension
        ext = req.get_param('extension')

        # Retrieve input_file
        input_file = req.get_param('file')

        # Read file as binary
        raw = input_file.file.read()

        # Retrieve filename
        filename = input_file.filename

        # Define file_path
        file_path = os.path.join(self._storage_path, filename)

        # Write to a temporary file to prevent incomplete files from
        # being used.
        temp_file_path = file_path + '~'

        # Finally write the data to a temporary file
        with open(temp_file_path, 'wb') as output_file:
            shutil.copyfileobj(raw, output_file)

        # Now that we know the file has been fully saved to disk
        # move it into place.
        os.rename(temp_file_path, file_path)

        resp.status = falcon.HTTP_201

Answer 1

I had to study cgi

• cgi - File upload
• cgi - Big file upload

This is the implementation I used:

def on_post(self, req, resp):
        """
        POST METHOD
        """
        # Retrieve input_file
        input_file = req.get_param('file')

        # Test if the file was uploaded
        if input_file.filename:
            # Retrieve filename
            filename = input_file.filename

            # Define file_path
            file_path = os.path.join(self._storage_path, filename)

            # Write to a temporary file to prevent incomplete files
            # from being used.
            temp_file_path = file_path + '~'

            open(temp_file_path, 'wb').write(input_file.file.read())

            # Now that we know the file has been fully saved to disk
            # move it into place.
            os.rename(temp_file_path, file_path)

    resp.status = falcon.HTTP_201