Flask-RESTful - Upload image

Question

I was wondering on how do you upload files by creating an API service?

class UploadImage(Resource):
    def post(self, fname):
        file = request.files['file']
        if file:
            # save image
        else:
            # return error
            return {'False'}

Route

api.add_resource(UploadImage, '/api/uploadimage/<string:fname>')

And then the HTML

   <input type="file" name="file">

I have enabled CORS on the server side

I am using angular.js as front-end and ng-upload if that matters, but can use CURL statements too!

Answer 1

The following is enough to save the uploaded file:

from flask import Flask
from flask_restful import Resource, Api, reqparse
import werkzeug

class UploadImage(Resource):
   def post(self):
     parse = reqparse.RequestParser()
     parse.add_argument('file', type=werkzeug.datastructures.FileStorage, location='files')
     args = parse.parse_args()
     image_file = args['file']
     image_file.save("your_file_name.jpg")