drf_sandbox

A sandbox to explore DRF features

Installation

1. Create a virtualenv and run pip install -r requirements.txt
2. Setup your database with python manage.py migrate
3. Run a dev server with python manage.py runserver

file_manager

A simple app to upload files via DRF which are stored in the media folder of this directory

No authentication is used

Use the DRF HTML form to test with http://127.0.0.1:8000/file_manager/

Use httpie with http -f POST http://127.0.0.1:8000/file_manager/ name='some file' file@~/Desktop/file.txt

Obtain the path of the first uploaded file:

>>> from file_manager.models import FileManager
>>> files = FileManager.objects.all()
>>> files[0].file.name
u'uploads/my_file.txt'

Use a script to upload a file:

$ export DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=drf_sandbox.settings
$ python save_a_file_to_a_model.py