I am learning web development, i have some experience in python scripting. this time, I wanted to create an api in python , so review fast api docs. i have following set up (example contrived for the purpose of this post) . based on the examples in fast api site, i created following python code, which has two methods. also , i have defined classes that represent the data i want to read in these methods . my understading is pydantic library validates data. so for testing , i used curl command as such, which works. pydantic maps the data {'name': 'foo'} i sent in curl command , to the class i have define Item. is there any documentation on how does it maps data?for my next method , i want to post contents of a file, like video/audio data , which i understand i can send as raw binary data. i have defined FileContent class with a field that can store bytes. but when i try to post file contents, curl -X POST -F "file=@somefile.wav" http://127.0.0.1:5000/upload_file_content i get json serialization error. how can i map the binary content of the file, i send via curl command to the FileContent class ? curl -X "POST" \ "http://127.0.0.1:5000/items" \ -H "accept: application/json" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d "{\"name\": \"foo\"}" from fastapi import FastAPI from pydantic import BaseModel, bytes app = FastAPI() class FileContent(BaseModel): data: bytes class Item(BaseModel): name: str @app.post("/items/") async def create_item(item: Item): return item @app.post("/upload_file_content/") async def upload_file_content(file_content: FileContent): # do something with file content here Continue reading...
