File uploading in Flask

I've used two ways of uploading files

• only directly to folder
• directly into database from a folder

Upload to a folder

You can choose the folder of your choice to receive uploaded files, here in my project when a file is uploaded the file is taken , sperated by extension, rename the file to current timestamp and upload the file to folder and the name to the database. The file is only saved in the folder.

app = Flask(__name__, static_folder='uploads')

So the file into the folder and the name to the database.

Upload to database from a folder

So if you wanna a directly upload any file to the database, you need to save it as BLOB.
File size by MySQL type:

TINYBLOB 255 bytes = 0.000255 Mb
BLOB 65535 bytes = 0.0655 Mb
MEDIUMBLOB 16777215 bytes = 16.78 Mb
LONGBLOB 4294967295 bytes = 4294.97 Mb =4.295 G

So basically you'd have to convert the file into binary form and then upload it to the database.

def convertToBinaryData(filename):
    with open(filename, 'rb') as file:
        binaryData = file.read()
    return binaryData

Eventhough we are saving the file directly into the database we are forced to assign a location of file upload as same as the previous method. If you don't, flask will throw a error such as No such filename as filename.type.

So we follow the same steps as before,and we add a step in converting the uploaded file to binary and upload the file and the file's name to the database.

You can delete the file from the folder after upload to the database if you want to.

Please check if the upload works!!

Here's the view of the BLOB file and their names in the mysql database

Give it a shot and enjoy!! THANKS!

Project Installation

Requirements

• Python 3.10.6

Install

• clone

git clone https://github.com/pj8912/flask-file-upload.git

• Create virtual environment and activate

• Install requirements
  

pip install -r requirements.txt

Configuration

• I used mysql database for this project

• create an .env and add appropiate values for your mysql setup

• .env variables :

  • DB_HOST=
  • DB_USERNAME=
  • DB_PWD=
  • DB_NAME=file-test

Host, username, password and database name

My database name is file-test

• SQL file

Import sql file from mysql/file-test.sql

Run

python app.py