[Django] How to upload a file to via Django REST Framework?

Here is an example to use Parser: MultiPartParser to parse the media type: multipart/form-data. You also can take a look at this for more in detail: http://www.django-rest-framework.org/api-guide/parsers

Client Side via curl: ( Basically you can use either PUT or POST)
Command format:
curl -X PUT -H 'Content-Type:multipart/form-data' -F 'data=@/{your_file}' -u {account}:{password} http://{your server ip address}/

for instance:
curl -X PUT -H 'Content-Type:multipart/form-data' -F 'data=@/Users/administrator/Desktop/2015.12.01.yaml' -u danny:password http://192.168.1.100:8000/api/upload_func/file/



Server side ( Django REST Framework )

in your settings.py, add the following lines
==>
    'DEFAULT_PARSER_CLASSES': (
        'rest_framework.parsers.MultiPartParser',
    )


For your_api.py, you can refer to this example as below:

class UploadAction(APIView):
    permission_classes = (IsAuthenticated, IsAdminOrReadOnly)
    parser_classes = (MultiPartParser,)

    def put(self, request, format=None):
        try:
            # Read uploaded files
            my_file = request.FILES['data']
            filename = "/tmp/" + str(my_file)
            with open(filename, 'wb+') as temp_file:
                for chunk in my_file.chunks():
                    temp_file.write(chunk)
                temp_file.close()
        except Exception as e:
            return Response(status=status.HTTP_500_INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR)
        return Response(status=status.HTTP_201_CREATED)


P.S: Please change 'data' to others if you put the different variable name in curl command!!

Reference:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21012538/retrieve-json-from-request-files-in-django-without-writing-to-file

If you want to get the content of uploaded file, you can directly use the. read() api.

Something like:

if request.FILES.has_key('data'):
    file = request.Files['data']
    data = file.read()
    #you have file contents in data