Hi there, wanted to share the solution i found. before doing any manipulations on the images, you should call read() method on the image field of the FILES dictionary
image = request.FILES["picture"].read() On May 9, 11:57 pm, Philip <philip.nuzh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sure Martin, > > I am using Django forms to handle data inputing > > from django import forms > > class MyForm(forms.Form): > picture = forms.FileField() > > Here's how it gets bound in the request handler > > myForm = MyForm(request.POST, request.FILES) > > And then i attempt to generate a thumbnail > > from google.appengine.api import images > images.resize(myForm.cleaned_data["picture"], 50, 50) > > I should note that the whole thing runs on django non-rel for > appengine. > > Thanks for your time, > > Philip > > On May 9, 8:13 pm, Martin Webb <spydre...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > > > > > > > Can you send over more of your code - ie the handler that gets the image > > and the complete code you are using to resize it including all your > > includes - i will tell you what you are doing wrong. > > > Regards > > > Martin Webb > > > The information contained in this email is confidential and may contain > > proprietary information. It is meant solely for the intended recipient. > > Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not the > > intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action > > taken or omitted in reliance on this, is prohibited and may be unlawful. No > > liability or responsibility is accepted if information or data is, for > > whatever reason corrupted or does not reach its intended recipient. No > > warranty is given that this email is free of viruses. The views expressed > > in this email are, unless otherwise stated, those of the author > > > ________________________________ > > From: Philip <philip.nuzh...@gmail.com> > > To: Google App Engine <google-appengine@googlegroups.com> > > Sent: Sun, 9 May, 2010 13:45:08 > > Subject: [google-appengine] images api: problem generating a thumbnail > > > Hello, > > > I'm trying to generate a thumbnail for an image uploaded through a > > form. I use images api provided with app engine: > > > images.resize(pic, width, height) > > > When run on a dev server, I get > > google.appengine.api.images.BadImageError exception > > On the appspot, I get > > An error occurred parsing (locally or remotely) the > > arguments to images.Transform(). <class > > 'google.appengine.runtime.apiproxy_errors.ArgumentError'> > > > I am positive that the original image is not null (i am able to store > > it in the database and later retrieve and render it). > > > Any ideas? > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Google App Engine" group. > > To post to this group, send email to google-appeng...@googlegroups.com. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > For more options, visit this group > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Google App Engine" group. > > To post to this group, send email to google-appeng...@googlegroups.com. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > For more options, visit this group > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To post to this group, send email to google-appeng...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appeng...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
