I have a project in Django, and I'm using mongoengine to save images into a Mongo database using GridFSStorage.
All ok so far, but the problem is... when trying to retrieve the images via http request, with a REST API made with django-tastypie-mongoengine, I get back a json object like this:
{"file": "<GridFSProxy: 516ed7cf56ba7d01eb09f522>", "id": "516ed7cf56ba7d01eb09f524", "resource_uri": "/api/v1/pic/516ed7cf56ba7d01eb09f524/"}
Does anybody know how could I get the file from GridFS via http request?
Many thanks!
You'll need to write your own view, but you can make it seem like it's part of the API. First, the view:
def api_image(pk):
obj = get_object_or_404(Model, pk=pk)
image_file = obj.file
return Response(image_file.read(),
mime_type='image/png') # or whatever the MIME type is
Then, you can map it in your urls.py:
url('^/api/v1/pic/(?P<pk>\w+)/file/$', api_image)
And to make sure tastypie shows what you want in the output:
def dehydrate_file(self, bundle):
return '/api/v1/pic/%s/file/' % (bundle.obj.id)
Just make sure the fake API view appears ahead of your actual API definitions, and you should be all set!
Paul's hint was very useful. Here i have implemented this completely in tastypie manner for uploading and downloading images.
Here you go..
1. Overriding deseriazer to support 'multipart'.
class MultipartResource(object):
def deserialize(self, request, data, format=None):
if not format:
format = request.META.get('CONTENT_TYPE', 'application/json')
if format == 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded':
return request.POST
if format.startswith('multipart'):
data = request.POST.copy()
data.update(request.FILES)
return data
return super(MultipartResource, self).deserialize(request, data, format)
2. Model class
class Research(Document):
user = ReferenceField(User)
academic_year = StringField(max_length=20)
subject = StringField(max_length=150)
topic = StringField(max_length=50)
pub_date = DateTimeField()
authored = StringField(max_length=20)
research_level = StringField(max_length=20)
paper_presented = BooleanField()
thesis_written = BooleanField()
proof_image = ImageField()
3. Resource class
class ResearchResource(MultipartResource, MongoEngineResource):
class Meta:
queryset = Research.objects.all()
list_allowed_methods = ['get','post']
resource_name = 'research'
authentication = SessionAuthentication()
authorization = Authorization()
def prepend_urls(self):
return [
url(r"^(?P<resource_name>%s)/$" % self._meta.resource_name,
self.wrap_view('dispatch_list'), name="api_dispatch_list"),
#url to download image file.
url(r"^(?P<resource_name>%s)/(?P<pk>\w+)/file/$"% self._meta.resource_name,
self.wrap_view('get_image'), name="api_get_image"),
]
#Preparing image url dynamically
def dehydrate_proof_image(self, bundle):
return '/api/v1/%s/%s/file/' % (self._meta.resource_name,bundle.obj.id)
#view will call based on image url to download image.
def get_image(self, request, **kwargs):
obj = Research.objects.get(id=kwargs['pk'])
image_file = obj.proof_image
return HttpResponse(image_file.read(), content_type="image/jpeg"))
Hope this will be very useful for everyone in future. :)
