#Filedrop js how to#

Obviously you should still follow the security tips on that flask 'file uploads' page I linked for securing that file name, but otherwise that's all there is to it. That's in the request.data-the entire file in whatever encoding format it was uploaded in. Where's the actual data? It's in the body of the POST request. fileName = urlparse.unquote(request.headers) I have access to that in the request object. Where's the data? In the network request in my browser I can see a header called X-File-Name which is the url quoted name of the file being uploaded. What I did was look at the network request FileDrop makes. įileDrop doesn't appear to send it that way as dropzone.js does using this form. FileDrop doesn't use this so that files attribute in the request should be empty.Ī tag is marked with enctype=multipart/form-data and an is placed in that form. I'm actually working on this same problem and can maybe help you with what I've determined.įirst, the files attribute on the flask request is only when the data is sent from a form using a specific encoding and type.

#Filedrop js how to#

Request.files is now a ImmutableMultiDict() and I don't know how to access it from Flask.

Then trying to inspect the uploaded file in Flask: methods=) FileList might contain multiple items. Do something when a user chooses or drops a file: When I follow the minimal examples from the documentation, for example However, how can I get my uploaded file using FileDrop.js? I don't see a possibility in the documentation how to pass an additional parameter via POST. The paramname: 'file' is sent somehow with the request so that in my Flask application, I can get the uploaded file via: methods=) send all dropped files to /upload on the server via POST

when the whole document has loaded, call the init function I got this working using another file uploading framework, jQuery filedrop: The reason for this seems to be that Flask expects that the file is send to the server via POST along with an additional parameter that is used to identify the file from the application. FileDrop.js looks promising for this task, however, I do not get it to work together with Flask. I run a Python Flask application and want to implement the possibility to upload files to the server.