How can I test binary file uploading with django-rest-framework's test client?

Question

I have a Django application with a view that accepts a file to be uploaded. Using the Django REST framework I\'m subclassing APIView and implementing the post() method like

Answer 1

For those in Windows, the answer is a bit different. I had to do the following:

resp = None
with tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(suffix='.jpg', delete=False) as tmp_file:
    image = Image.new('RGB', (100, 100), "#ffffd")
    image.save(tmp_file, format="JPEG")
    tmp_file.close()

# create status update
with open(tmp_file.name, 'rb') as photo:
    resp = self.client.post('/api/articles/', {'title': 'title',
                                               'content': 'content',
                                               'photo': photo,
                                               }, format='multipart')
os.remove(tmp_file.name)

The difference, as pointed in this answer (https://stackoverflow.com/a/23212515/72350), the file cannot be used after it was closed in Windows. Under Linux, @Meistro's answer should work.