Need help processing upload form with Google App Engine Blobstore

Question

I\'m trying to learn the blobstore API... and I\'m able to successfully upload files and get them back, but I\'m not having any luck trying to combine an upload form with a regu

Answer 1

The problem is that your posted form data is lost when you redirect the request to "/save/%s", which is normal.

Instead of redirecting, you should put your code inside UploadHandler, like this (untested code) :

class UploadHandler(blobstore_handlers.BlobstoreUploadHandler):
    def post(self):
        try:
            upload_files = self.get_uploads('file')
            blob_info = upload_files[0]

            newFile = StoredFiles()
            newFile.nickname = self.request.get('nickname')
            newFile.blobkey = blob_info.key()
            newFile.put()

            self.redirect('/')
        except:
            self.redirect('/upload_failure.html')

See this page from the docs for a similar example : http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/tools/webapp/blobstorehandlers.html#BlobstoreUploadHandler