How to Handle Direct File Upload Google App Engine Python
I searched my little heart out on the query "Python Direct File Upload Google App Engine" until I had given up hope thinking it was only doable in PHP. I finally stumbled on this blog post explaining how to handle uploads in webapp2 in python.
Here's how to handle direct file uploads in Google App Engine Python:
Step 1. Make sure your form tag includes enctype="multipart/form-data"
.
<form action="yourHandlerUrl" class="form" method="POST" enctype="multipart/form-data">
Step 2. Add your file selector to your form.
<input type="file" name="yourFileName" >
Step 3. In your form handler, instead of using self.request.get
which will give you the file's name, use self.request.POST.get
which will return a StringIO object.
fileObj = self.request.POST.get("yourFileName")
Step 4. Do what you need with it, such as iterate through the lines of the file:
for line in fileObj.file:
#do cool stuff with line
logging.info(line)
Remember that there is a 32MB size limit on direct upload files.
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