All the examples I can find on google endpoint api (e.g., tic-tac-toe sample) show strings, integers, enums, etc fields. None of the examples say anything about how to specify document (e.g., image or zip files) uploads or downloads using the API. Is this not possible?
If this is possible, can anyone share a code snippet on how to define google endpoint api on the server to allow downloads and uploads of files? For example, is there a way to set HTTPResponse headers to specify that an endpoint response will serve a zip file? How do we include the zip file in the response?
An example with python or php would be appreciated. If anyone from the endpoints-proto-datastore team is watching this discussion, please say whether or not file downloads are supported in endpoints at the moment. We hate to waste our time trying to figure this out if it is simply impossible. Thanks.
We are seeking a complete example for upload and download. We need to store the key for the uploaded file in our database during upload and retrieve it for download. The client app sends a token that the API needs to use to figure out what file to download. Hence, we would need to store the blob key generated during the upload process in our database. Our database would have the mapping between the token and the blob file's key.
class BlobDataFile(models.Model):
data_code = models.CharField(max_length=10) # Key used by client app to request file
blob_key = models.CharField()
By the way, our app is written in Django 1.7 with a mysql (modeled with models.Model) database. It is infuriating that all the examples for Google App Engine upload I can find is written for a standalone webapp Handlers (no urls.py/views.py solutions could be found anywhere). Hence, building a standalone uploader is as much of a challenge as writing the API code. If your solution has full urls.py/views.py example for uploading files and saving the blob_key in our BlobDataFile, it would be good enough for us.