Upload Images As Raw Data In Django Rest Framework

I am using Django-rest Framework for a project in which I am uploading the images to amazon s3 from my local system. This I am doing using the Html form which works fine. This is

Solution 1:

In your api view class use

parser_classes = (FileUploadParser, MultiPartParser)

Your uploaded file be available as a file object in the request.data dictionary with the key as 'file'.

Your front end client will send the file data in the key "file".

Read more about the FileUploadParser here: http://www.django-rest-framework.org/api-guide/parsers/#fileuploadparser

code example:

classFileUploadApiView(views.APIView):


    def post(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
        form = ImageForm(request.data)
        if form.is_valid():
            image = form.save(commit=False)
        else:
            return Response(form.errors, status_code=status.HTTP_400_BAD_REQUEST)
        if request.data.get('file'):
            image_file_obj = request.data.get('file')
            # do something with file
            image_path = save_on_s3(image)
            image.image = image_path
            image.save()
            serializer = ImageSerializer(image)
            return Response(serializer.data, status=status.HTTP_200_OK)
        else:
            return Response(dict(error="no image uploaded"), status_code=status.HTTP_400_BAD_REQUEST)

Here in the model I have taken the field image as a path field and not as a ImageField.