This is my first question in this forum. I want to POST(using PUT Method) the data using multipart form data. I found the code for Multipart Post Form Data code in doughellmann.com.It works fine for post data. I ant to add my parameters in PUT Method and i tried it. it does not return back .... Could you please help on this guys....
Code
# This Script is used for upload API Calls
# This script would be inherited under Device API
#
import itertools
import mimetools
import mimetypes
from cStringIO import StringIO
import urllib
import urllib2
class MultiPartForm(object):
"""Accumulate the data to be used when posting a form."""
def __init__(self):
self.form_fields = []
self.files = []
self.boundary = mimetools.choose_boundary()
return
def get_content_type(self):
return 'multipart/form-data; boundary=%s' % self.boundary
def add_field(self, name, value):
"""Add a simple field to the form data."""
self.form_fields.append((name, value))
return
def add_file(self, fieldname, filename, fileHandle, mimetype=None):
"""Add a file to be uploaded."""
body = fileHandle.read()
if mimetype is None:
mimetype = mimetypes.guess_type(filename)[0] or 'application/octet-stream'
self.files.append((fieldname, filename, mimetype, body))
return
def __str__(self):
"""Return a string representing the form data, including attached files."""
# Build a list of lists, each containing "lines" of the
# request. Each part is separated by a boundary string.
# Once the list is built, return a string where each
# line is separated by '\r\n'.
parts = []
part_boundary = '--' + self.boundary
# Add the form fields
parts.extend(
[ part_boundary,
'Content-Disposition: form-data; name="%s"' % name,
'',
value,
]
for name, value in self.form_fields
)
# Add the files to upload
parts.extend(
[ part_boundary,
'Content-Disposition: file; name="%s"; filename="%s"' % \
(field_name, filename),
'Content-Type: %s' % content_type,
'',
body,
]
for field_name, filename, content_type, body in self.files
)
# Flatten the list and add closing boundary marker,
# then return CR+LF separated data
flattened = list(itertools.chain(*parts))
flattened.append('--' + self.boundary + '--')
flattened.append('')
return '\r\n'.join(flattened)
if __name__ == '__main__':
# Create the form with simple fields
form = MultiPartForm()
form.add_field('firstname', 'Doug')
form.add_field('lastname', 'Hellmann')
# Add a fake file
form.add_file('biography', 'bio.txt',
fileHandle=StringIO('Python developer and blogger.'))
# Build the request
request = urllib2.Request('http://192.1681.2/1.0/api/filecontents')
request.add_header('User-agent', 'PyMOTW (http://www.doughellmann.com/PyMOTW/)')
body = str(form)
request.add_header('Content-type', form.get_content_type())
request.add_header('Content-length', len(body))
request.add_data(body)
regparams={'restMethod' : 'PUT' ,'HTTP_RANGE' :'10-20' }
print
print 'OUTGOING DATA:'
print request.get_data()
params = urllib.urlencode(regparams)
print
print 'SERVER RESPONSE:'
print urllib2.urlopen(request,params).read()
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You should consider using the requests module:
with open("report.xls", "rb") as report:
requests.post("http://httpbin.org/post", files={'file': report})
answered Oct 31, 2015 at 18:10
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PUT, then you aren't really "POSTing" the data.