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1 """
2
3 Tutorial: File upload and download
4
5 Uploads
6 -------
7
8 When a client uploads a file to a CherryPy application, it's placed
9 on disk immediately. CherryPy will pass it to your exposed method
10 as an argument (see "myFile" below); that arg will have a "file"
11 attribute, which is a handle to the temporary uploaded file.
12 If you wish to permanently save the file, you need to read()
13 from myFile.file and write() somewhere else.
14
15 Note the use of 'enctype="multipart/form-data"' and 'input type="file"'
16 in the HTML which the client uses to upload the file.
17
18
19 Downloads
20 ---------
21
22 If you wish to send a file to the client, you have two options:
23 First, you can simply return a file-like object from your page handler.
24 CherryPy will read the file and serve it as the content (HTTP body)
25 of the response. However, that doesn't tell the client that
26 the response is a file to be saved, rather than displayed.
27 Use cherrypy.lib.cptools.serveFile for that; it takes four
28 arguments:
29
30 serveFile(path, contentType=None, disposition=None, name=None)
31
32 Set "name" to the filename that you expect clients to use when they save
33 your file. Note that the "name" argument is ignored if you don't also
34 provide a "disposition" (usually "attachment"). You can manually set
35 "contentType", but be aware that if you also use the EncodingFilter, it
36 may choke if the file extension is not recognized as belonging to a known
37 Content-Type. Setting the contentType to "application/x-download" works
38 in most cases, and should prompt the user with an Open/Save dialog in
39 popular browsers.
40
41 """
42
43 import os
44 localDir = os.path.dirname(__file__)
45 absDir = os.path.join(os.getcwd(), localDir)
46
47 import cherrypy
48 from cherrypy.lib import cptools
49
50
51 class FileDemo(object):
52    
53     def index(self):
54         return """
55         <html><body>
56             <form action="upload" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
57             filename: <input type="file" name="myFile" /><br />
58             <input type="submit" />
59             </form>
60         </body></html>
61         """
62     index.exposed = True
63    
64     def upload(self, myFile):
65         out = """<html>
66         <body>
67             myFile length: %s<br />
68             myFile filename: %s<br />
69             myFile mime-type: %s
70         </body>
71         </html>"""
72        
73         # Although this just counts the file length, it demonstrates
74         # how to read large files in chunks instead of all at once.
75         # CherryPy uses Python's cgi module to read the uploaded file
76         # into a temporary file; myFile.file.read reads from that.
77         size = 0
78         while True:
79             data = myFile.file.read(8192)
80             if not data:
81                 break
82             size += len(data)
83        
84         return out % (size, myFile.filename, myFile.type)
85     upload.exposed = True
86    
87     def download(self):
88         path = os.path.join(absDir, "pdf_file.pdf")
89         return cptools.serveFile(path, "application/x-download",
90                                  "attachment", os.path.basename(path))
91     download.exposed = True
92
93
94 cherrypy.root = FileDemo()
95
96 if __name__ == '__main__':
97     # Use the configuration file tutorial.conf.
98     cherrypy.config.update(file = 'tutorial.conf')
99     # Start the CherryPy server.
100     cherrypy.server.start()
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