On 7/17/12, gavin lyons <renegade...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have built the Django server as shown here > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5871730/need-a-minimal-django-file-upload-example > > I have been trying to build an android app that will allow me to select > files on my phone and post them to the the server. All the examples i am > finding are for posting data to a php server which i have tried to adapt > with little success. > > If anyone has an ideas how this can be achieved that would be greatly > appreciated
It's hard to know what's actually not working from this description. I'll guess that the APP is actually performing an HTTP request using the POST method, targeting some specific URL. You should be able to design a view to deal with whatever the APP is posting. But modern Django has CSRF protection by default, and I'll bet the APP isn't dealing with that correctly. There are two ways out of this: 1. explicitly disable CSRF protection for the view in question (there is a decorator for that); or 2. assuming that you have the source code of the APP, you understand it, and you have a build system on which to re-make it, you can modify the app to do a GET first, have the response include the CSRF token, and return it suitably (you probably have to deal with session and other cookies for this). I also presume that you require a log in in order to be allowed to post to this django site. Does the APP do that, and exchange the corresponding cookies? If the APP isn't doing simple HTTP, then, as the other gentleman suggested, some purpose built API, like a REST scheme (tastypie, djangorestframework, or the ;pmg om the tooth and apparently no longer supported piston), or even SOAP (not for the faint of heart) would make the APP useful with multiple disparate servers. Bill -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
