OK, I'm getting there, althought I'm still confused a bit. In WebOb docs I found request.body_file, request.body_file_raw, request.body_file_seekable.
In multipart's request.POST, I'm doing: file_obj.seek(0, 2) file_size = file_obj.tell() file_obj.seek(0) Should I be using seekable or raw for this? Zsolt On 17 April 2018 at 15:10, Zsolt Ero <zsolt....@gmail.com> wrote: > I've realised the following: > 1. If I don't specify Content-Type, curl defaults to x-www-form-urlencoded > 2. What I thought is the binary file's contents as a string is > actually not working reliably. On an XML upload of a single file I get > thousands of items and request.POST.items() looks like: > ['<?xml version', 'amp', 'lang', 'amp', 'lang', 'amp', 'lang', 'amp', 'lang'] > 2. The binary string I can use is actually request.body. Still, is > there any potential problems with handling this as string and not as a > file object? > > Zsolt > > On 17 April 2018 at 14:24, Zsolt Ero <zsolt....@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm trying to implement an API to a website which didn't have an API >> yet. It's purpose will be to allow file uploads from 3rd party native >> apps. >> >> I'd like to implement the API like Dropbox v2 API, just as a good >> reference for API design. >> >> It's upload endpoint has the following specs: >> https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#files-upload >> >> And the following cURL example: >> >> curl -X POST https://content.dropboxapi.com/2/files/upload \ >> --header "Authorization: Bearer " \ >> --header "Dropbox-API-Arg: {\"path\": >> \"/Homework/math/Matrices.txt\",\"mode\": \"add\",\"autorename\": >> true,\"mute\": false}" \ >> --header "Content-Type: application/octet-stream" \ >> --data-binary @local_file.txt >> >> Now my problem is that I've implemented most parts, but if the request >> has --header "Content-Type: application/octet-stream" then WebOb >> doesn't allow using request.POST. It says: >> >> Not an HTML form submission (Content-Type: application/octet-stream) >> >> If I remove that header, I can use request.POST.keys()[0] to read the >> contents of the file as a string. >> >> My question is: >> 1. What am I doing wrong that the Content-Type is not supported? >> 2. Is there any downside of having an up-to-100 MB file as a string? >> Wouldn't the HTML multipart-form-data's file solution use less memory? >> Can I make WebOb handle this kind of uploads like it does multipart >> ones? >> >> Zsolt -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pylons-discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to pylons-discuss+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to pylons-discuss@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pylons-discuss/CAKw-smBHD9Dg45R1UCu47NTQzYR1H1xdq8_RFyG4E0EKb0zsDw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
