Python requests_toolbelt MultipartEncoder filename - python

Using requests_toolbelt to upload large files in a Multipart form, I have constructed a method below which succeeds in uploading the file, however I cannot access the posted filename. How do I access the filename on the server?
# client-side
file = open('/Volumes/Extra/test/my_video.mpg', 'rb')
payload = MultipartEncoder({file.name: file})
r = requests.post(url, data=payload, headers={'Content-Type': 'application/octet-stream'})
# server-side
#view_config(route_name='remote.agent_upload', renderer='json')
def remote_agent_upload(request):
r = request.response
fs = request.body_file
f = open('/Volumes/Extra/tests2/bar.mpg', 'wb') # wish to use filename here
f.write(fs.read())
fs.close()
f.close()
return r

OK, it looks like you are using the name of the file as the field name. Also, the way that you are doing it, seems like the entire post content is being written to file... Is this the desired outcome? Have you tried to actually play your mpg files after you write them on the server side?
I don't have an HTTP server readily available to test at the moment which automagically gives me a request object, but I am assuming that the request object is a webob.Request object (at least it seems like that is the case, please correct me if I'm wrong)
OK, let me show you my test. (This works on python3.4, not sure what version of Python you are using, but I think it should also work on Python 2.7 - not tested though)
The code in this test is a bit long, but it is heavily commented to help you understand what I did every step of the way. Hopefully, it will give you a better understanding of how HTTP requests and responses work in python with the tools you are using
# My Imports
from requests_toolbelt import MultipartEncoder
from webob import Request
import io
# Create a buffer object that can be read by the MultipartEncoder class
# This works just like an open file object
file = io.BytesIO()
# The file content will be simple for my test.
# But you could just as easily have a multi-megabyte mpg file
# Write the contents to the file
file.write(b'test mpg content')
# Then seek to the beginning of the file so that the
# MultipartEncoder can read it from the beginning
file.seek(0)
# Create the payload
payload = MultipartEncoder(
{
# The name of the file upload field... Not the file name
'uploadedFile': (
# This would be the name of the file
'This is my file.mpg',
# The file handle that is ready to be read from
file,
# The content type of the file
'application/octet-stream'
)
}
)
# To send the file, you would use the requests.post method
# But the content type is not application-octet-stream
# The content type is multipart/form-data; with a boundary string
# Without the proper header type, your server would not be able to
# figure out where the file begins and ends and would think the
# entire post content is the file, which it is not. The post content
# might even contain multiple files
# So, to send your file, you would use:
#
# response = requests.post(url, data=payload, headers={'Content-Type': payload.content_type})
# Instead of sending the payload to the server,
# I am just going to grab the output as it would be sent
# This is because I don't have a server, but I can easily
# re-create the object using this output
postData = payload.to_string()
# Create an input buffer object
# This will be read by our server (our webob.Request object)
inputBuffer = io.BytesIO()
# Write the post data to the input buffer so that the webob.Request object can read it
inputBuffer.write(postData)
# And, once again, seek to 0
inputBuffer.seek(0)
# Create an error buffer so that errors can be written to it if there are any
errorBuffer = io.BytesIO()
# Setup our wsgi environment just like the server would give us
environment = {
'HTTP_HOST': 'localhost:80',
'PATH_INFO': '/index.py',
'QUERY_STRING': '',
'REQUEST_METHOD': 'POST',
'SCRIPT_NAME': '',
'SERVER_NAME': 'localhost',
'SERVER_PORT': '80',
'SERVER_PROTOCOL': 'HTTP/1.0',
'CONTENT_TYPE': payload.content_type,
'wsgi.errors': errorBuffer,
'wsgi.input': inputBuffer,
'wsgi.multiprocess': False,
'wsgi.multithread': False,
'wsgi.run_once': False,
'wsgi.url_scheme': 'http',
'wsgi.version': (1, 0)
}
# Create our request object
# This is the same as your request object and should have all our info for reading
# the file content as well as the file name
request = Request(environment)
# At this point, the request object is the same as what you get on your server
# So, from this point on, you can use the following code to get
# your actual file content as well as your file name from the object
# Our uploaded file is in the POST. And the POST field name is 'uploadedFile'
# Grab our file so that it can be read
uploadedFile = request.POST['uploadedFile']
# To read our content, you can use uploadedFile.file.read()
print(uploadedFile.file.read())
# And to get the file name, you can use uploadedFile.filename
print(uploadedFile.filename)
So, I think this modified code will work for you. (Hopefully)
Again, not tested because I don't actually have a server to test with. And also, I don't know what kind of object your "request" object is on the server side.... OK, here goes:
# client-side
import requests
file = open('/Volumes/Extra/test/my_video.mpg', 'rb')
payload = MultipartEncoder({'uploadedFile': (file.name, file, 'application/octet-stream')})
r = requests.post('http://somewhere/somefile.py', data=payload, headers={'Content-Type': payload.content_type})
# server-side
#view_config(route_name='remote.agent_upload', renderer='json')
def remote_agent_upload(request):
# Write your actual file contents, not the post data which contains multi part boundary
uploadedFile = request.POST['uploadedFile']
fs = uploadedFile.file
# The file name is insecure. What if the file name comes through as '../../../etc/passwd'
# If you don't secure this, you've just wiped your /etc/passwd file and your server is toast
# (assuming the web user has write permission to the /etc/passwd file
# which it shouldn't, but just giving you a worst case scenario)
fileName = uploadedFile.filename
# Secure the fileName here...
# Make sure it doesn't have any slashes or double dots, or illegal characters, etc.
# I'll leave that up to you
# Write the file
f = open('/Volumes/Extra/tests2/' + fileName, 'wb')
f.write(fs.read())

Probably too late for the original OP but may help someone else. This is how I upload a file with accompanying json in a multipart/form-data upload using the MultipartEncoder. When I require a file to uploaded as binary with a single json string as part of a multipart request (so there are just two parts, the file and the json). Note that in creating my request header (it's a custom header as designated by the receiving server) I get the content_type from the encoded object (it usually comes through as multipart/form-data). I'm using simplejson.dumps but you can just use json.dumps I believe.
m = MultipartEncoder([
('json', (None, simplejson.dumps(datapayload), 'text/plain')),
('file', (os.path.basename(file_path), open(file_path, 'rb'), 'text/plain'))],
None, encoding='utf-8')
headers = {'Authorization': 'JwToken' + ' ' + jwt_str, 'content-type': m.content_type}
response = requests.post(uri, headers=headers, data=m, timeout=45, verify=True )
In the file part, the field is called "file", but I use os.path.basename(file_path) to get just the filename from a full file path e.g. c:\temp\mytestfile.txt . It's possible I could just as easily call the file something else (that's not the original name) in this field if I wanted to.

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how to use Python requests to post a binary stream with parameters?

there is my code:
client:
def upload(url,file):
file_name=file.split('\\')[-1]
with open(file,'rb') as f:
r=requests.post(url,data=f)
server side:
$datastr = fopen('php://input',"rb");
$filename='upload/111.bin';
if ($fp = fopen($filename,"wb")){
while(!feof($datastr)){
fwrite($fp,fread($datastr,4096)) ;
}
}
it can work, but I don't know how to post the file stream with file name.
if I use r=requests.post(url,data={ 'name':file_name, 'file':open(file,'rb') }), $_POST is null
According to the documentation you can POST a multipart file with requests, but to POST it as a stream you should use requests-toolbelt.
If no streaming is actually required, you could modify your code to be:
def upload(url,file):
file_name=file.split('\\')[-1]
with open(file,'rb') as f:
r=requests.post(url,files={"file": (file_name, f)})
Using files in this way let’s you include file name and other header info (see docs for more information)

how to download a file using python-sharepoint library

I am using this library https://github.com/ox-it/python-sharepoint to connect to a SharePoint list. I can authenticate, access the list fields, including the full URL to the file I want, and it seems this library does have is_file() and open() methods however, I do not understand how to call these.
Any advice is appreciated!
from sharepoint import SharePointSite, basic_auth_opener
opener = basic_auth_opener(server_url, "domain/username", "password")
site = SharePointSite(server_url, opener)
sp_list = site.lists['ListName']
for row in sp_list.rows:
print row.id, row.Title, row.Author['name'], row.Created, row.EncodedAbsUrl
#download file
#row.open() ??
To quote from ReadMe file:
Support for document libraries is limited, but SharePointListRow
objects do support a is_file() method and an open() method for
accessing file data.
Basically you call these methods on the list row (which is of type SharePointListRow).
The open() method is actually the method of urllib2's opener, which you usually use like so:
import urllib2
opener = urllib2.build_opener()
response = opener.open('http://www.example.com/')
print ('READ CONTENTS:', response.read())
print ('URL :', response.geturl())
# ....
So you should be able to use it like this (I don't have any Sharepoint site to check this though):
from sharepoint import SharePointSite, basic_auth_opener
opener = basic_auth_opener(server_url, "domain/username", "password")
site = SharePointSite(server_url, opener)
sp_list = site.lists['ListName']
for row in sp_list.rows(): # <<<
print row.id, row.Title, row.Author['name'], row.Created, row.EncodedAbsUrl
# download file here
print ( "This row: ", row.name() ) # <<<
if row.is_file(): # <<<
response = row.open() # <<<
file_data = response.read() # <<<
# process the file data, e.g. write to disk

Getting an empty file when served by django

I have the following code for managing file download through django.
def serve_file(request, id):
file = models.X.objects.get(id=id).file #FileField
file.open('rb')
wrapper = FileWrapper(file)
mt = mimetypes.guess_type(file.name)[0]
response = HttpResponse(wrapper, content_type=mt)
import unicodedata, os.path
filename = unicodedata.normalize('NFKD', os.path.basename(file.name)).encode("utf8",'ignore')
filename = filename.replace(' ', '-') #Avoid browser to ignore any char after the space
response['Content-Length'] = file.size
response['Content-Disposition'] = 'attachment; filename={0}'.format(filename)
#print response
return response
Unfortunately, my browser get an empty file when downloading.
The printed response seems correct:
Content-Length: 3906
Content-Type: text/plain
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=toto.txt
blah blah ....
I have similar code running ok. I don't see what can be the problem. Any idea?
PS: I have tested the solution proposed here and get the same behavior
Update:
Replacing wrapper = FileWrapper(file) by wrapper = file.read() seems to fix the problem
Update: If I comment the print response, I get similar issue:. the file is empty. Only difference: FF detects a 20bytes size. (the file is bigger than this)
File object is an interable, and a generator. It can be read only once before being exausted. Then you have to make a new one, of use a method to start at the begining of the object again (e.g: seek()).
read() returns a string, which can be read multiple times without any problem, this is why it solves your issue.
So just make sure that if you use a file like object, you don't read it twice in a row. E.G: don't print it, then returns it.
From django documentation:
FieldFile.open(mode='rb') Behaves like the standard Python open()
method and opens the file associated with this instance in the mode
specified by mode.
If it works like pythons open then it should return a file-object, and should be used like this:
f = file.open('rb')
wrapper = FileWrapper(f)

How do I handle file upload via PUT request in Django?

I'm implementing a REST-style interface and would like to be able to create (via upload) files via a HTTP PUT request. I would like to create either a TemporaryUploadedFile or a InMemoryUploadedFile which I can then pass to my existing FileField and .save() on the object that is part of the model, thereby storing the file.
I'm not quite sure about how to handle the file upload part. Specifically, this being a put request, I do not have access to request.FILES since it does not exist in a PUT request.
So, some questions:
Can I leverage existing functionality in the HttpRequest class, specifically the part that handles file uploads? I know a direct PUT is not a multipart MIME request, so I don't think so, but it is worth asking.
How can I deduce the mime type of what is being sent? If I've got it right, a PUT body is simply the file without prelude. Do I therefore require that the user specify the mime type in their headers?
How do I extend this to large amounts of data? I don't want to read it all into memory since that is highly inefficient. Ideally I'd do what TemporaryUploadFile and related code does - write it part at a time?
I've taken a look at this code sample which tricks Django into handling PUT as a POST request. If I've got it right though, it'll only handle form encoded data. This is REST, so the best solution would be to not assume form encoded data will exist. However, I'm happy to hear appropriate advice on using mime (not multipart) somehow (but the upload should only contain a single file).
Django 1.3 is acceptable. So I can either do something with request.raw_post_data or request.read() (or alternatively some other better method of access). Any ideas?
Django 1.3 is acceptable. So I can
either do something with
request.raw_post_data or
request.read() (or alternatively some
other better method of access). Any
ideas?
You don't want to be touching request.raw_post_data - that implies reading the entire request body into memory, which if you're talking about file uploads might be a very large amount, so request.read() is the way to go. You can do this with Django <= 1.2 as well, but it means digging around in HttpRequest to figure out the the right way to use the private interfaces, and it's a real drag to then ensure your code will also be compatible with Django >= 1.3.
I'd suggest that what you want to do is to replicate the existing file upload behaviour parts of the MultiPartParser class:
Retrieve the upload handers from request.upload_handlers (Which by default will be MemoryFileUploadHandler & TemporaryFileUploadHandler)
Determine the request's content length (Search of Content-Length in HttpRequest or MultiPartParser to see the right way to do this.)
Determine the uploaded file's filename, either by letting the client specify this using the last path part of the url, or by letting the client specify it in the "filename=" part of the Content-Disposition header.
For each handler, call handler.new_file with the relevant args (mocking up a field name)
Read the request body in chunks using request.read() and calling handler.receive_data_chunk() for each chunk.
For each handler call handler.file_complete(), and if it returns a value, that's the uploaded file.
How can I deduce the mime type of what
is being sent? If I've got it right, a
PUT body is simply the file without
prelude. Do I therefore require that
the user specify the mime type in
their headers?
Either let the client specify it in the Content-Type header, or use python's mimetype module to guess the media type.
I'd be interested to find out how you get on with this - it's something I've been meaning to look into myself, be great if you could comment to let me know how it goes!
Edit by Ninefingers as requested, this is what I did and is based entirely on the above and the django source.
upload_handlers = request.upload_handlers
content_type = str(request.META.get('CONTENT_TYPE', ""))
content_length = int(request.META.get('CONTENT_LENGTH', 0))
if content_type == "":
return HttpResponse(status=400)
if content_length == 0:
# both returned 0
return HttpResponse(status=400)
content_type = content_type.split(";")[0].strip()
try:
charset = content_type.split(";")[1].strip()
except IndexError:
charset = ""
# we can get the file name via the path, we don't actually
file_name = path.split("/")[-1:][0]
field_name = file_name
Since I'm defining the API here, cross browser support isn't a concern. As far as my protocol is concerned, not supplying the correct information is a broken request. I'm in two minds as to whether I want say image/jpeg; charset=binary or if I'm going to allow non-existent charsets. In any case, I'm putting setting Content-Type validly as a client-side responsibility.
Similarly, for my protocol, the file name is passed in. I'm not sure what the field_name parameter is for and the source didn't give many clues.
What happens below is actually much simpler than it looks. You ask each handler if it will handle the raw input. As the author of the above states, you've got MemoryFileUploadHandler & TemporaryFileUploadHandler by default. Well, it turns out MemoryFileUploadHandler will when asked to create a new_file decide whether it will or not handle the file (based on various settings). If it decides it's going to, it throws an exception, otherwise it won't create the file and lets another handler take over.
I'm not sure what the purpose of counters was, but I've kept it from the source. The rest should be straightforward.
counters = [0]*len(upload_handlers)
for handler in upload_handlers:
result = handler.handle_raw_input("",request.META,content_length,"","")
for handler in upload_handlers:
try:
handler.new_file(field_name, file_name,
content_type, content_length, charset)
except StopFutureHandlers:
break
for i, handler in enumerate(upload_handlers):
while True:
chunk = request.read(handler.chunk_size)
if chunk:
handler.receive_data_chunk(chunk, counters[i])
counters[i] += len(chunk)
else:
# no chunk
break
for i, handler in enumerate(upload_handlers):
file_obj = handler.file_complete(counters[i])
if not file_obj:
# some indication this didn't work?
return HttpResponse(status=500)
else:
# handle file obj!
Newer Django versions allow for handling this a lot easier thanks to https://gist.github.com/g00fy-/1161423
I modified the given solution like this:
if request.content_type.startswith('multipart'):
put, files = request.parse_file_upload(request.META, request)
request.FILES.update(files)
request.PUT = put.dict()
else:
request.PUT = QueryDict(request.body).dict()
to be able to access files and other data like in POST. You can remove the calls to .dict() if you want your data to be read-only.
I hit this problem while working with Django 2.2, and was looking for something that just worked for uploading a file via PUT request.
from django.http import QueryDict
from django.http.multipartparser import MultiValueDict
from django.core.files.uploadhandler import (
SkipFile,
StopFutureHandlers,
StopUpload,
)
class PutUploadMiddleware(object):
def __init__(self, get_response):
self.get_response = get_response
def __call__(self, request):
method = request.META.get("REQUEST_METHOD", "").upper()
if method == "PUT":
self.handle_PUT(request)
return self.get_response(request)
def handle_PUT(self, request):
content_type = str(request.META.get("CONTENT_TYPE", ""))
content_length = int(request.META.get("CONTENT_LENGTH", 0))
file_name = request.path.split("/")[-1:][0]
field_name = file_name
content_type_extra = None
if content_type == "":
return HttpResponse(status=400)
if content_length == 0:
# both returned 0
return HttpResponse(status=400)
content_type = content_type.split(";")[0].strip()
try:
charset = content_type.split(";")[1].strip()
except IndexError:
charset = ""
upload_handlers = request.upload_handlers
for handler in upload_handlers:
result = handler.handle_raw_input(
request.body,
request.META,
content_length,
boundary=None,
encoding=None,
)
counters = [0] * len(upload_handlers)
for handler in upload_handlers:
try:
handler.new_file(
field_name,
file_name,
content_type,
content_length,
charset,
content_type_extra,
)
except StopFutureHandlers:
break
for chunk in request:
for i, handler in enumerate(upload_handlers):
chunk_length = len(chunk)
chunk = handler.receive_data_chunk(chunk, counters[i])
counters[i] += chunk_length
if chunk is None:
# Don't continue if the chunk received by
# the handler is None.
break
for i, handler in enumerate(upload_handlers):
file_obj = handler.file_complete(counters[i])
if file_obj:
# If it returns a file object, then set the files dict.
request.FILES.appendlist(file_name, file_obj)
break
any(handler.upload_complete() for handler in upload_handlers)

upload binary data or file from memory using python http post

I have seen the receipes for uploading files via multipartform-data and pycurl. Both methods seem to require a file on disk. Can these recipes be modified to supply binary data from memory instead of from disk ? I guess I could just use a xmlrpc server instead.I wanted to get around having to encode and decode the binary data and send it raw... Do pycurl and mutlipartform-data work with raw data ?
This (small) library will take a file descriptor, and will do the HTTP POST operation: https://github.com/seisen/urllib2_file/
You can pass it a StringIO object (containing your in-memory data) as the file descriptor.
Find something that cas work with a file handle. Then simply pass a StringIO object instead of a real file descriptor.
I met similar issue today, after tried both and pycurl and multipart/form-data, I decide to read python httplib/urllib2 source code to find out, I did get one comparably good solution:
set Content-Length header(of the file) before doing post
pass a opened file when doing post
Here is the code:
import urllib2, os
image_path = "png\\01.png"
url = 'http://xx.oo.com/webserviceapi/postfile/'
length = os.path.getsize(image_path)
png_data = open(image_path, "rb")
request = urllib2.Request(url, data=png_data)
request.add_header('Cache-Control', 'no-cache')
request.add_header('Content-Length', '%d' % length)
request.add_header('Content-Type', 'image/png')
res = urllib2.urlopen(request).read().strip()
return res
see my blog post: http://www.2maomao.com/blog/python-http-post-a-binary-file-using-urllib2/
Following python code works reliable on 2.6.x. The input data is of type str.
Note that the server that receives the data has to loop to read all the data as the large
data sizes will be chunked. Also attached java code snippet to read the chunked data.
def post(self, url, data):
self.curl = pycurl.Curl()
self.response_headers = StringIO.StringIO()
self.response_body = io.BytesIO()
self.curl.setopt(pycurl.WRITEFUNCTION, self.response_body.write)
self.curl.setopt(pycurl.HEADERFUNCTION, self.response_headers.write)
self.curl.setopt(pycurl.FOLLOWLOCATION, 1)
self.curl.setopt(pycurl.MAXREDIRS, 5)
self.curl.setopt(pycurl.TIMEOUT, 60)
self.curl.setopt(pycurl.ENCODING,"deflate, gzip")
self.curl.setopt(pycurl.URL, url)
self.curl.setopt(pycurl.VERBOSE, 1)
self.curl.setopt(pycurl.POST,1)
self.curl.setopt(pycurl.POSTFIELDS,data)
self.curl.setopt(pycurl.HTTPHEADER, [ "Content-Type: octate-stream" ])
self.curl.setopt(pycurl.POSTFIELDSIZE, len(data))
self.curl.perform()
return url, self.curl.getinfo(pycurl.RESPONSE_CODE),self.response_headers.getvalue(), self.response_body.getvalue()
Java code for the servlet engine:
int postSize = Integer.parseInt(req.getHeader("Content-Length"));
results = new byte[postSize];
int read = 0;
while(read < postSize) {
int n = req.getInputStream().read(results);
if (n < 0) break;
read += n;
}
found a solution that works with the cherrypy file upload example: urllib2-binary-upload.py
import io # Part of core Python
import requests # Install via: 'pip install requests'
# Get the data in bytes. I got it via:
# with open("smile.gif", "rb") as fp: data = fp.read()
data = b"GIF89a\x12\x00\x12\x00\x80\x01\x00\x00\x00\x00\xff\x00\x00!\xf9\x04\x01\n\x00\x01\x00,\x00\x00\x00\x00\x12\x00\x12\x00\x00\x024\x84\x8f\x10\xcba\x8b\xd8ko6\xa8\xa0\xb3Wo\xde9X\x18*\x15x\x99\xd9'\xad\x1b\xe5r(9\xd2\x9d\xe9\xdd\xde\xea\xe6<,\xa3\xd8r\xb5[\xaf\x05\x1b~\x8e\x81\x02\x00;"
# Hookbin is similar to requestbin - just a neat little service
# which helps you to understand which queries are sent
url = 'https://hookb.in/je2rEl733Yt9dlMMdodB'
in_memory_file = io.BytesIO(data)
response = requests.post(url, files=(("smile.gif", in_memory_file),))

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