File upload using Flask - python-3.x

Question

I am trying to implement a python API in order to upload a file on my server but for an unknown reason, it doesn't run.
From my understanding, the app.py is not recognised
Here is my API.py
from flask_cors import CORS
from flask_restful import Api, Resource, reqparse
import sqlite3
import uuid
import os
import csv
import urllib.request
import threading
import queue as Queue
import subprocess
import json
import re
import datetime
app = Flask(__name__)
api = Api(app)
CORS(app)
class upload(Resource):
def post(self):
ALLOWED_EXTENSIONS = set(['txt', 'pdf', 'png', 'jpg', 'jpeg', 'gif'])
def allowed_file(filename):
return '.' in filename and filename.rsplit('.', 1)[1].lower() in ALLOWED_EXTENSIONS
def upload_file():
# check if the post request has the file part
if 'file' not in request.files:
resp = jsonify({'message' : 'No file part in the request'})
resp.status_code = 400
return resp
file = request.files['file']
int = str(request.form['int']) #true or false
if file.filename == '':
resp = jsonify({'message' : 'No file selected for uploading'})
resp.status_code = 400
return resp
if file and allowed_file(file.filename):
filename = secure_filename(file.filename)
file.save(os.path.join(app.config['UPLOAD_FOLDER'], filename))
return json.dumps(data), 200
else:
resp = jsonify({'message' : 'Allowed file types are doc, etc.'})
resp.status_code = 400
return resp
api.add_resource(upload, "/api/v1/upload")
app.run(host='0.0.0.0', debug=True)
Here is my app.py
UPLOAD_FOLDER = '/home/xxxx/xxx/upload'
app = Flask(__name__)
#app.secret_key = "secret key"
app.config['UPLOAD_FOLDER'] = UPLOAD_FOLDER
app.config['MAX_CONTENT_LENGTH'] = 16 * 1024 * 1024
Can you please help? Any suggestions?

Answer 1

As per the comment, it looks like you have two sepearate applications here.
I would just stick with the first one API.py, but you'll need to move the lines where you set the config variables into API.py:
So after this line in API.py:
app = Flask(__name__)
Immediately set the config values:
UPLOAD_FOLDER = '/home/xxxx/xxx/upload'
#app.secret_key = "something super secret"
app.config['UPLOAD_FOLDER'] = UPLOAD_FOLDER
app.config['MAX_CONTENT_LENGTH'] = 16 * 1024 * 1024
Then execute with:
python API.py