upload image to imagefield with djangorestframework using json and test this with CURL

Question

I have made several apis in djangorestframework. This I could test both with the html form of the api as with curl in commandline.

Now I have an api to a Model with

Answer 1

After a long puzzle, this seems to do the trick:

• put all json arguments in separate -F arguments
• only use the header Accept (not Content-Type)
• And specify the image type

• Use @ to indicate the local file to upload

  curl -X POST -S \
    -H 'Accept: application/json' \
    -u "username:password" \
    -F "otherfields=something" \
    -F "photo=@/home/michel/test.jpg;type=image/jpg" \
    http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/v1/
  

By the way, I know all of this is on the documentation site of curl, but just missed an example of all those things together since there are a lot of options to try out.