Using raw HTML when I post a file to a flask server using the following I can access files from the flask request global:
<form id="uploadForm" action='upload_file' role="form" method="post" enctype=multipart/form-data>
<input type="file" id="file" name="file">
<input type=submit value=Upload>
</form>
In flask:
def post(self):
if 'file' in request.files:
# ....
When I try to do the same with Axios the flask request global is empty:
<form id="uploadForm" enctype="multipart/form-data" v-on:change="uploadFile">
<input type="file" id="file" name="file">
</form>
<script>
function uploadFile(event) {
const file = event.target.files[0]
axios.post('upload_file', file, {
headers: {
'Content-Type': 'multipart/form-data'
}
})
}
</script>
If I use the same uploadFile function above but remove the headers json from the axios.post method I get in the form key of my flask request object a csv list of string values (file is a .csv).
How can I get a file object sent via axios?
Add the file to a formData
object, and set the Content-Type
header to multipart/form-data
.
var formData = new FormData();
var imagefile = document.querySelector('#file');
formData.append("image", imagefile.files[0]);
axios.post('upload_file', formData, {
headers: {
'Content-Type': 'multipart/form-data'
}
})