I'm trying to do a multi-part form upload with "requests" in python. I can upload the file, but it never loads the additional fields that are typically passed through the -F flag with curl. The curl command I'm trying to mimic:
curl -v -u user:password -X POST -F 'properties={"filename":"maurizio.png"}' -F "file=@maurizio.png" 192.168.59.103:8080/testdb/mybucket.files
The requests code is:
url = "http://192.168.59.103:8080/testdb/mybucket.files"
content_type = "multipart/form-data"
params = {"filename":"maurizio.png"}
params["_id"] = "test_hash_1234"
data = open('maurizio.png','rb').read()
files = {'file': ('maurizio.png',data,content_type,params)}
request = requests.post(url,files=files,auth=('user','password'))
This file is loaded into restheart api for mongodb. The "_id" is a special object id that the database uses to reference the object. I need to specify that document field in additional to other document fields like the filename. The file is uploaded into Mongo's blob datastore called gridfs. I can upload the data and the additional document fields with curl, but the "requests" code above only uploads the data and not the additional document fields. I need those additional fields for querying.
Can somebody help me convert the -F flag into something that equivalent to python's requests module? Thanks!
