On May 6, 10:05 pm, rbp <richar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> hello,
>
> I just noticed that web2py has an easy way to stream data - that's
> fantastic!
> Currently I upload and download data without streaming which is really
> tough on my web2py server.
>
> All the examples I've seen are for streaming a file on the file
> system. Is it possible to stream a blob fieldtype without loading it
> all into memory at once?
No because web2py base64 encodes blobs.
> Also, how can I manually stream an upload? I am trying to save the
> posted data with a request without the server having to load it all
> into memory at once.
If you use SQLField('file','upload') it ill by default stream in
upload and download. If you use SQLField
('file','upload',uploadfield='the_blob_field') then it must be read in
memory at once in order to communicate with the DB.
Massimo
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