Django Rest Framework File Upload

I'm using the same stack and was also looking for an example of file upload, but my case is simpler since I use the ModelViewSet instead of APIView. The key turned out to be the pre_save hook. I ended up using it together with the angular-file-upload module like so:

# Djangoclass ExperimentViewSet(ModelViewSet):    queryset = Experiment.objects.all()    serializer_class = ExperimentSerializer    def pre_save(self, obj):        obj.samplesheet = self.request.FILES.get('file')class Experiment(Model):    notes = TextField(blank=True)    samplesheet = FileField(blank=True, default='')    user = ForeignKey(User, related_name='experiments')class ExperimentSerializer(ModelSerializer):    class Meta:        model = Experiment        fields = ('id', 'notes', 'samplesheet', 'user')// AngularJScontroller('UploadExperimentCtrl', function($scope, $upload) {    $scope.submit = function(files, exp) {        $upload.upload({            url: '/api/experiments/' + exp.id + '/',            method: 'PUT',            data: {user: exp.user.id},            file: files[0]        });    };});

Use the FileUploadParser, it's all in the request.Use a put method instead, you'll find an example in the docs :)

class FileUploadView(views.APIView):    parser_classes = (FileUploadParser,)    def put(self, request, filename, format=None):        file_obj = request.FILES['file']        # do some stuff with uploaded file        return Response(status=204)

Finally I am able to upload image using Django. Here is my working code

views.py

class FileUploadView(APIView):    parser_classes = (FileUploadParser, )    def post(self, request, format='jpg'):        up_file = request.FILES['file']        destination = open('/Users/Username/' + up_file.name, 'wb+')        for chunk in up_file.chunks():            destination.write(chunk)        destination.close()  # File should be closed only after all chuns are added        # ...        # do some stuff with uploaded file        # ...        return Response(up_file.name, status.HTTP_201_CREATED)

urls.py

urlpatterns = patterns('', url(r'^imageUpload', views.FileUploadView.as_view())

curl request to upload

curl -X POST -S -H -u "admin:password" -F "file=@img.jpg;type=image/jpg" 127.0.0.1:8000/resourceurl/imageUpload