Halfway there! Using the above controller, I am now able to upload files. On the client side the thing that saved me was the 'poster' urrlib2-based utility available at http://pypi.python.org/pypi/poster (with a couple of small modifications).
Thank you, pbreit. On Apr 28, 11:17 am, dhmorgan <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for the leads; I just watched the restful api's video and have > been reading up on doing this with xmlrpc. > > In the meantime, based on your first comment, here is a controller > that does work, at least through the browswer: > > ---------------- > def add_photo(): > form = SQLFORM(db.photolog) > if request.post_vars: > db.photolog.insert(title=request.vars.title, > photo=db.photolog.photo.store(request.vars.photo, > > request.vars.photo.filename), > photo_data=request.vars.photo.file.read()) > return dict(form=form) > ---------------- > > On Apr 27, 4:38 pm, pbreit <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I don't think you can suppress the formkey check so all I can think of is > > skipping the "if form.accepts" and processing everything yourself. > > > You also might want to have a look at XMLRPC which is sort of designed for > > this kind of thing:http://web2py.com/book/default/chapter/09#XMLRPC > > > The new REST capabilities might work as well but I couldn't find detail on > > POSTing into > > them:https://groups.google.com/d/topic/web2py/gcqEcXIo7RI/discussion > >
