How-To: Uploaded Files

Uploaded files are key to any image based social media platform. Waffleweb makes receiving and using uploaded files easy.

File uploads are stored in the FILES attribute of the Request object passed into your route functions. The files are stored in File objects. You can access the data of the file with the data attribute. You can access the name of the file with the name attribute.

The data of files are stored in bytes so to save the file you will need to set the mode of open() to “wb”.

from waffleweb.static import openStatic
from waffleweb.response import render
import bleach

@app.route('/upload', methods=['GET', 'POST'])
def upload(request):
    if request.method == 'POST':
        file = request.FILES.get('file', None)
        if file is not None:
            name = bleach.clean(file.name)
            with openStatic(f'uploads/{name}', 'wb') as f:
                f.write(file.data)

    return render(request, 'uploadForm.html')

You should clean the data to prevent data that could break things.

If your are using the built-in test server some of your files may not be fully uploaded. This is becuase of the request size limit. You can get around this by using a WSGI server, See Deploying Your Project.

You can access the content type of the file with the contentType attribute.

The size of the file is stored in the size attribute.