Masonite - AttributeError > 'str' object has no attribute 'filename'

Question

I have a form that looks like this:

<form method="POST" action="/posts">
    {{ csrf_field }}
    <input type="text" name="username">
    <input type="file" name="image">

    <input type="submit" value="Submit">
</form>

But when I submit this form and try to upload I am only getting the name of the image:

def posts(self, request: Request, upload: Upload):
    upload.store(request().input('image'))

I get hit with an exception:

AttributeError > 'str' object has no attribute 'filename'

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 08 '18 at 20:12

This is thrown because you do not have an encoding set on your HTML form here:

<form method="POST" action="/posts">

This should be changed to:

<form method="POST" action="/posts" enctype="multipart/form-data">

This will encode the image so Masonite can read it as an object and not a string.

Masonite - AttributeError > 'str' object has no attribute 'filename'

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