Correction. This works but it probaby does not work with upload.

you may need something like

@auth.requires_login()
def uploadme(): db.mytable.insert(filefield=request.body.read())

On Aug 16, 12:50 pm, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote:
> if you have:
>
> def mycreate(): return dict(form=crud.create(db.mytable))
>
> you normally call:http://..../mycreateto get the form.
> You can also call it with
>
> http://..../mycreate.json?json=[]
>
> where [] is a URLencoded JSONencoded dictionary containing the new
> record. The ".json" instructs web2py not to generate the form but to
> expect a json input. This is experimental but give it  try. Should
> work for any page including crud forms.
>
> Massimo
>
> On Aug 16, 10:53 am, Ian Reinhart Geiser <ian.gei...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Greetings, Currently I have a lovely web form that was fairly easy to
> > implement with web2py.  I now also have cron script that is uploading
> > snapshots of an image from a webcam to my website.   What I would like
> > to do is have a service url that I could post my image to and have it
> > automatically be added vs going through the form.
>
> > From what I can tell is I would have a run REST url and i would read
> > the request.body object to get the file.  What I am unclear on is how
> > I might put this on the filesystem and the needed links in the
> > database correctly.  Do I have to roll my own update code vs using the
> > DAL?
>
> > Thanks in advance!
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