multiple file upload in django rest framework

Question

I want to create an API using DRF where I want to upload two files in two different name and a text field with a string of json. The figure below shows my postman attempt to the API.

Please help me to write my API properly. I looked for several posts in stack overflow but did not get any proper solution. I dont have any models according to the input but I want to create a standalone API and want to manipulate these files and json at runtime.

Answer 1

Simply something like,

import json
from rest_framework.decorators import api_view
from rest_framework.response import Response


@api_view(['POST'])
def foo(request):
    attributes = json.loads(request.data['attributes'])  # will be a 'dict'
    xsd_file = request.data['xsd_file']  # "InMemoryUploadFile" instance
    Iccs_file = request.data['Iccs_file']  # "InMemoryUploadFile" instance
    return Response("some response")

Answer 2

I assume that you are writing class based views. here is your view.py

class multipleFileUpload(APIView):

    def post(self, request):
    """

    :param request: 
    :return: 
    """
    try:
        #this will read attributes other than file
        str_value = request.POST["attributes"]
        print(str_value)

        #check if any file send in request if yes read all files one by one
        if len(request.FILES) != 0:
           for key in request.FILES:
               file_obj = request.FILES[key]
               print(file_obj.read()) #getting contents of the file in bytes
        return JsonResponse({"res": "got files"})
    except Exception as e:
        print(str(e))
        return JsonResponse({"res": "error"})

add this line in your urls.py

url(r'uploadFiles/$', views.multipleFileUpload.as_view(), name='uploadFiles'),

Run your Post man with the same parameter and let me know.