Flask: How to handle application/octet-stream

Question

I want to make a multiple file-upload form.I use jQuery File Uploader. My server-side code:

@app.route(\"/new/photogallery\",methods=[\"POST\"])
def newPhotoGall         


        

Answer 1

Regardless of the the data encoding, you should be able to get the raw data with request.data. In the case of application/octet-stream, you can just write request.data to a binary file.

An example handler for various data types:

from flask import json

@app.route('/messages', methods = ['POST'])
def api_message():

    if request.headers['Content-Type'] == 'text/plain':
        return "Text Message: " + request.data

    elif request.headers['Content-Type'] == 'application/json':
        return "JSON Message: " + json.dumps(request.json)

    elif request.headers['Content-Type'] == 'application/octet-stream':
        with open('/tmp/binary', 'wb') as f:
            f.write(request.data)
            f.close()
        return "Binary message written!"

    else:
        return "415 Unsupported Media Type ;)"

The typical scenario of handling form data is already documented here.