Django Rest Framework ImageField

Question

I can not save the image in this ImageField.

when sending data back:

{
    \"image\": [\"No file was submitted. Check the encoding t         


        

Answer 1

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Django Rest Framework Image Upload
views.py
    class FileUploadView(APIView):
    permission_classes = []
    parser_class = (FileUploadParser,)

    @csrf_exempt
    def uploatuserprofile( request):

        #fetches specific user image
        if request.method=='GET':
            user_data=JSONParser().parse(request)
            obj=UserProfile.objects.filter(user=user_data["user"])
            serializer=UserProfileSerializer(obj,many=True)
            return JsonResponse(serializer.data,safe=False)



        if request.method == 'POST':
            # print('=====================================================================================>',request.FILES['profile_image'])
            
            # print("##################################################################################### ",request.POST['user'])
            try:
                s = UserProfile.objects.create(user_id = request.POST['user'], profile_image=request.FILES['profile_image'])
                s.save()
            except:
                return JsonResponse('Failed to upload Integrity error',safe=False)

            

            # file_serializer=UserProfileSerializer(request.POST,request.FILES)
        
            # if file_serializer.is_valid():
            #     file_serializer.save()
            return JsonResponse('profile uploded Sucessfully!!',safe=False)
        return JsonResponse('Failed to upload',safe=False)

urls.py of application

 url(r'^uploatuserprofile/$',views.FileUploadView.uploatuserprofile),


urls.py of project
from django.conf import settings
from django.conf.urls.static import static

from django.contrib import admin
from django.urls import path
from django.conf.urls import url,include
urlpatterns = [
    path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
    url(r'^',include('ChatApp.urls'))
]
if settings.DEBUG:
    urlpatterns += static(settings.MEDIA_URL,
                          document_root=settings.MEDIA_ROOT)

models.py

class UserProfile(models.Model):
    user = models.ForeignKey(Users,on_delete=models.CASCADE)
    profile_image = models.ImageField(upload_to='images/', blank=True, null=True)



    def __str__(self):
        return self.profile_image.name





setting.py

STATIC_URL = '/images/'
STATICFILES_DIRS = [
os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "images"),

]
STATIC_DIR = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'images')
# Base url to serve media files
MEDIA_URL = '/media/'

# Path where media is stored
MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'media/')`enter code here`**