Django Rest Attachment

Django Free Attachment is a Django app to provide a simple attachment service independent of any other model.

Detailed documentation is in the "docs" directory.

Quick start

1. Setup environment

mkdir django
cd django
python -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate

# Create requirements.txt file
cat <<EOF > requirements.txt
django<3,>=2.2
setuptools
djangorestframework
EOF

pip install -r requirements.txt

2. Start Project

django-admin startproject proj

3. Add "attachment" to your INSTALLED_APPS setting like this::

    INSTALLED_APPS = [
        ...
        'rest_framework',
        'attachment',
    ]

3. Add Media settings, if you have done this, ignore this step

MEDIA_DIR = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "media")


MEDIA_ROOT = MEDIA_DIR
MEDIA_URL = '/media/'

4. add routers.py to pro folder (the save folder with urls.py)

# routers.py

from rest_framework import routers
from attachment.viewsets import AttachmentViewSet

router = routers.SimpleRouter()
router.register(r'attachment', AttachmentViewSet, basename='attachment')

5. Include the attachment and api URLconf in your project urls.py like this::

from django.urls import path, include
from django.conf.urls.static import static
from django.conf import settings
from .routers import router

urlpatterns = [
  ....
  path('api/', include(router.urls), name='api'),
  path('attachment/', include('attachment.urls'), name='attachment'),
] + static(settings.MEDIA_URL, document_root=settings.MEDIA_ROOT)

6. Run python manage.py migrate to create the polls models.

7. Add superuser

python manage.py createsuperuser
python manage.py runserver

8. Start the development server and visit http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/

Test

1. Visit http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/attachment/ to upload a attachment from admin

2. Using Postman to post a REST request:

• add X-CSRFToken to header

• add session id to Postman Cookies

Postman can automatically extract session from chrome browser refer Postman Doc