multipart-form-data_django_rest_framework_tutorial

About

date: 2012/11/25

This is a simple django-rest-framework multipart/form-data example.

Requirements

Setup was on ubuntu 12.04.

*Django==1.4.2 *Pygments==1.5 *argparse==1.2.1 *djangorestframework==2.1.6 *wsgiref==0.1.2 *requests==0.14.2a

Installation and setup

1. Download and cd into the multipart-form-data_django_rest_framework_tutorial:

   $ cd multipart-form-data_django_rest_framework_tutorial/

2. Install requirements from the r.txt file with pip:

   $ pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Setup database:

   $ python manage.py sncdb

4. Run the Django development server:

   $ python manage.py runserver

Uploading files

This files provides commands to upload files to the django-rest-framework api.

1. Open a python interpreter:

   $ python

2. Import requests in python interpreter:

   $import requests

3. Swap out the YOUR_URL in the url variables with your root url:

   $url_upload_form = 'YOUR_URL/api/upload_form/'

   $url_upload_serializers = 'YOUR_URL/api/upload_serializers/'

4. Paste url variables into python interpreter:

5. Create a file to up:

   $files = {'docfile': ('report.csv', 'some,data,to,send\nanother,row,to,send\n')}

6. Upload a file with a form:

   $r=requests.post(url_upload_form, data={'title':'file_upload_form'}, files=files)

7. Upload a file with django-rest-framework serializer:

   $r=requests.post(url_upload_serializers, data={'title':'file_upload_serializers'}, files=files)

8. To view uploaded data in the django-rest-framework view go to:

   $YOUR_URL/api/upload_form/

   or

   $YOUR_URL/api/upload_serializers/