Use Django views for handling blobstore uploads

Question

In stead of using the BlobstoreUploadHandler supplied in AppEngine, I\'d prefer to use a Django view, so I can keep all the urls and view functions together. Howeve

Answer 1

The key info isn't directly in the file, it's in file.blobstore_info.key()

1. post your form containing your image to a url created using blobstore.create_upload_url():

   from google.appengine.ext import blobstore
   
   upload_url = blobstore.create_upload_url('/add_image/')
   

the created url will save the image in the blobstore and redirect the request (with modified file object) to /add_image/

2. define a url pattern and view for /add_image/ and handle the image:

   def add_action_image(request):
       image = request.data.get('image')
       image_key = image.blobstore_info.key()
       ... addl' logic to save a record with the image_key...