#blobstore

I ran into a problem working with django on GAE: uploading images. AppEngine can't access the file system. The only way to upload images ( or files in general ) is to upload them to Blobstore or Google Cloud Storage. 

Solution: https://github.com/kienluu/blobstore_storage

1. Clone the repo

2. add 'blobstore_storage' to your INSTALLED_APPS (settings.py)

3. add DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE = "blobstore_storage.storage.BlobStoreStorage" to your settings.py

4. add  url(r'^media/', include('blobstore_storage.urls')), to your urls.py

5. For any models that require file upload set storage=BlobStoreStorage()

example: https://gist.github.com/ishuah91/7308314

Saved me a lot of time. I couldn't find the the author's email (https://github.com/kienluu) on his github profile page, wanted to thank him.

Here's a code example to let users upload a file to the Blobstore and then download it back again. This code uses a servlet and a JSP page: the JSP page shows a form and the servlet accepts the upload, then immediately sends the uploaded file back to the user.

Here's the doPost and doGet code for the servlet (in this example, we aliased the servlet to /blobstoreexample):

public void doGet(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse resp) throws IOException { String blob_key_string = req.getParameter("blob_key"); System.out.println("BLOBKEY: " + blob_key_string); if (blob_key_string == null) { resp.sendRedirect("/example.jsp"); System.out.println("No blobkey given, redirecting to upload page."); } else { BlobKey blob_key = new BlobKey(blob_key_string); BlobstoreServiceFactory.getBlobstoreService().serve(blob_key, resp); System.out.println("Blobkey given, sending file."); } }//end doGet public void doPost(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse resp) throws IOException { try { Map<String, List<BlobKey>> files_sent = BlobstoreServiceFactory.getBlobstoreService().getUploads(req); BlobKey file_uploaded_key = files_sent.get("file").get(0); resp.sendRedirect("/blobstoreexample?blob_key=" + file_uploaded_key.getKeyString()); System.out.println("Document successfully POSTED, redirect to doGET"); } catch (Exception e) { resp.sendRedirect("/example.jsp"); System.out.println("Document failed to POST, redirecting back to upload."); } }//end doPost

Here is the code for example.jsp (remember to import the Blobstore library):

<form enctype="multipart/form-data" method="post" action="<%= BlobstoreServiceFactory.getBlobstoreService().createUploadUrl("/blobstoreexample") %>"> <input type="file" name="file" size="30" /> <input type="submit" /></form>

Creating a serving URL for images stored in GCS is slightly different than for images stored in the Blobstore. Here's a code sample:

Bucket represents the name of your Google Cloud Storage bucket, and object represents the file name of the image (including extension).

A short code snippet showing how to write data to the Blobstore using the experimental Files API.