How To Upload File with Django Rest APi

Question

can someone help me how to upload file with POST method in django rest api, for example when I launch

curl -X POST 127.0.0.1:8000/api/v1/assets/ -d '{"name" = "my image   ","source"="/root/images/my_image2.jpg"}' -H "Content-Type: application/json"

I want to upload my_image2.jpg

serializers.py:

from django.forms import widgets
from rest_framework import serializers
from .models import Asset

class AssetSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
    class Meta:
        model = Asset

views.py:

from .serializers import AssetSerializer
from django.http import Http404
from rest_framework.views import APIView
from rest_framework.response import Response
from rest_framework import status

from rest_framework import status
from rest_framework.decorators import api_view


class AssetAdd(APIView):


    def post(self, request, format=None):
        serializer = AssetSerializer(data=request.DATA)
        print serializer.data

        if serializer.is_valid():

            serializer.save()
            return Response(serializer.data, status=status.HTTP_201_CREATED)

        return Response(serializer.errors, status=status.HTTP_400_BAD_REQUEST)

models.py

class Asset(models.Model):

    key = models.CharField(max_length=8, unique=True, editable=False)
    name = models.CharField(_('name'), max_length=200)
    source = models.FileField(_('file'), upload_to=upload_to, storage=default_storage)

    ext = models.CharField(max_length=15, editable=False)
    type = models.PositiveIntegerField(choices=ASSET_TYPE, max_length=15, editable=False)
    size = models.PositiveIntegerField(max_length=32, default=0, editable=False)

    _file_meta = models.TextField(editable=False, null=True, blank=True)

    public = models.BooleanField(default=False)
    position = models.PositiveIntegerField(default=1)

    object_id = models.PositiveIntegerField(default=1)
    content_type = models.ForeignKey(ContentType, blank=True, null=True)
    content_object = generic.GenericForeignKey('content_type', 'object_id')

    created = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)
    modified = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True, auto_now=True)

I'm newbie in Django REST API , I read documentation http://www.django-rest-framework.org/api-guide/parsers.html#fileuploadparser , but still don't undestand how to do it

Answer 1

First of all you need to define a parser in your view. This is because the API needs to know which headers to look for. Browsers transfer files as form-data, so you need to use the MultiPartParser and FormParser together. You can also use the FileUploadParser but you need to make sure your client is sending the correct HTTP headers.

from rest_framework.parsers import MultiPartParser, FormParser

class AssetAdd(APIView):
    parser_classes = (MultiPartParser, FormParser,)

Then, in the post method, your file will be present in the FILES QueryDict:

def post(self, request, format=None):
    my_file = request.FILES['file_field_name']
    filename = '/tmp/myfile'
    with open(filename, 'wb+') as temp_file:
        for chunk in my_file.chunks():
            temp_file.write(chunk)

    my_saved_file = open(filename) #there you go