Streaming file upload using bottle (or flask or similar)

Question

I have a REST frontend written using Python/Bottle which handles file uploads, usually large ones. The API is wirtten in such a way that:

The client sends PUT with t

Answer 1

When using plupload solution might be like this one:

$("#uploader").plupload({
    // General settings
    runtimes : 'html5,flash,silverlight,html4',
    url : "/uploads/",

    // Maximum file size
    max_file_size : '20mb',

    chunk_size: '128kb',

    // Specify what files to browse for
    filters : [
        {title : "Image files", extensions : "jpg,gif,png"},
    ],

    // Enable ability to drag'n'drop files onto the widget (currently only HTML5 supports that)
    dragdrop: true,

    // Views to activate
    views: {
        list: true,
        thumbs: true, // Show thumbs
        active: 'thumbs'
    },

    // Flash settings
    flash_swf_url : '/static/js/plupload-2.1.2/js/plupload/js/Moxie.swf',

    // Silverlight settings
    silverlight_xap_url : '/static/js/plupload-2.1.2/js/plupload/js/Moxie.xap'
});

And your flask-python code in such case would be similar to this:

from werkzeug import secure_filename

# Upload files
@app.route('/uploads/', methods=['POST'])
def results():
    content = request.files['file'].read()
    filename = secure_filename(request.values['name'])

    with open(filename, 'ab+') as fp:
        fp.write(content)

    # send response with appropriate mime type header
    return jsonify({
        "name": filename,
        "size": os.path.getsize(filename),
        "url": 'uploads/' + filename,})

Plupload always sends chunks in exactly same order, from first to last, so you do not have to bother with seek or anything like that.