flask-fs2 0.8.1

Simple and easy file storages for Flask

Simple and easy file storages for Flask.

Compatibility

Flask-FS requires Python >= 3.10 and Flask/Werkzeug >= 2.0.0.

Amazon S3 support requires Boto3.

GridFS support requires PyMongo 3+.

OpenStack Swift support requires python-swift-client.

Installation

You can install Flask-FS with pip:

$ pip install flask-fs2
# or
$ pip install flask-fs2[s3]  # For Amazon S3 backend support
$ pip install flask-fs2[swift]  # For OpenStack swift backend support
$ pip install flask-fs2[gridfs]  # For GridFS backend support
$ pip install flask-fs2[all]  # To include all dependencies for all backends

Quick start

from flask import Flask
import flask_fs as fs

app = Flask(__name__)
fs.init_app(app)

images = fs.Storage('images')


if __name__ == '__main__':
    app.run(debug=True)

Contributions

All contributions are welcome as long as they respect the C4 contract.

Code must follow the pep8 convention.

About authors

Flask-FS2 is maintained by CGWire, a company based in France. We help animation and VFX studios to collaborate better through efficient tooling. We already work with more than 70 studios around the world.

It’s a fork of this project.

Visit cg-wire.com for more information.

Changelog

Current

• Swift backend: per-process Connection pool (gevent.queue.Queue with stdlib queue.Queue fallback) so concurrent greenlets and threads no longer share a single swiftclient.Connection. Fixes sporadic 400s, ConnectionReset errors and content corruption observed under gevent workers.

• Swift backend: timeout and retries are now passed to every Connection (defaults: 60 s timeout, 5 retries).

• Swift backend: write() pre-computes content_length and ETag (when content is bytes or a seekable file-like) and verifies the ETag returned by Swift; mismatched objects are deleted and the call raises ClientException to prevent silent corruption.

• Swift backend: read_chunks() releases the borrowed Connection back to the pool when the generator is exhausted or close() is called.

• Swift backend: list_files() uses full_listing=True so containers with more than 10 000 objects are fully enumerated.

• Swift backend: new optional settings pool_size (default 20), timeout (default 60) and retries (default 5).

0.7.33 (2026-01-14)

• Upgrade GitHub Actions

0.7.32 (2026-01-12)

• Drop Python 3.9 support

• Python 3.12 requirements upgrade

0.7.31 (2025-08-19)

• Fix CI

• Upgrade requirements

0.7.30 (2025-05-28)

• Remove deprecated pkg_resources

• Upgrade requirements

0.7.29 (2025-03-09)

• Upgrade requirements

• Update README

0.7.28 (2025-01-10)

• Drop support for Python 3.8, add Python 3.13

• Fix Python 3.13 CI

• Fix AttributeError: 'GridFS' object has no attribute '_GridFS__collection'

• Use main branch in GitHub workflows

• Fix docker compose in GitHub Actions CI

• Run autoflake and black

• Upgrade requirements

0.7.27 (2024-07-12)

• Upgrade requirements

0.7.26 (2024-05-27)

• Use wheel of flask_mongoengine3 directly from PyPI

• Fix MongoDB test errors

• Upgrade requirements

0.7.25 (2024-05-07)

• Added copy() method to Storage

• Upgrade requirements

0.7.24 (2024-03-11)

• Upgrade requirements

0.7.23 (2023-10-23)

• Allow setting multiple backends, encrypted or not

• Added create_container/create_bucket options for Swift and S3

• Ensure server does not serve files outside DEBUG mode

• Use new pytest-flask version for CI tests

• Add .vscode/settings.json for black formatter

• Upgrade Pillow and other requirements

0.7.22 (2023-10-13)

• Swift backend refactoring

• Upgrade boto3

• Launch CI build on pull requests and every branch

0.7.21 (2023-10-09)

• Allow Flask v3 and newer boto3

• Add Python 3.12 to classifiers and CI matrix

• Use a pytest-flask branch fixing test issues

• Release script exits immediately on non-zero status

0.7.20 (2023-09-28)

• Upgrade boto3

0.7.19 (2023-09-18)

• Upgrade actions/checkout to v4

• Disable fail-fast in CI so jobs finish even on failure

• Cache pip in CI

• Add pre-commit configuration

• Upgrade requirements

• Update README

0.7.18 (2023-09-12)

• Switch CI from Travis to GitHub Actions (ci.yml + release.yml)

• Add release script integrated with new workflow

• Add coverage report

• Test against pypy3.10

• Upgrade requirements

0.7.17 (2023-07-25)

• Stop encrypting files in memory (stream encryption)

• Upgrade boto3, pymongo and sphinx

0.7.16 (2023-07-13)

• Fix tests

• Remove GitHub dependency, add python-keystoneclient

0.7.15 (2023-07-13)

• Allow Flask 2.3 in setup.cfg

• Fix Swift tests

• Add tests for crypto.py and encrypted files in storage

• Upgrade libraries

0.7.14 (2023-05-31)

• Fix tests on Flask 2.3

• Fix KeyError when FS_AES256_ENCRYPTED is not set

• Fix Travis build

0.7.13 (2023-05-26)

• Fix Flask issue with tests

0.7.12 (2023-05-26)

• Upgrade libraries

0.7.11 (2023-05-26)

• Added file encryption/decryption on put/get (AES256)

• Allow cryptography from 39.0.2

• Add license_file in setup

• Add launch.json for VSCode debugging

• Add issue templates

0.7.10 (2023-03-13)

• Create Swift container only if missing

• Fix pip install command for development

0.7.9 (2023-03-03)

• Added read_chunks() method on Storage

• Add test test_read_chunks

0.7.8 (2023-03-03)

• Use Swift auth_version 3 by default

0.7.7 (2023-02-24)

• Change options for Swift

0.7.6 (2023-02-09)

• Use app_context() when using current_app

0.7.5 (2023-02-06)

• Fix LocalBackend.delete: use self.path for destination

0.7.4 (2022-01-24)

• CGWire will maintain this fork

• Flask-FS2 requires Python 3.7+ and Flask/Werkzeug 2.0.0+

• Remove all code related to Python 2

• Added read_chunks() operations

• Add region configuration for Swift and S3

0.6.1 (2018-04-19)

• Fix a race condition on local backend directory creation

• Proper content type handling on GridFS (thanks to @rclement)

0.6.0 (2018-03-27)

• Added copy() and move() operations

• delete() now supports directories (or prefixes for key/value stores)

• Improve metadata() mime handling

• Added explicit ImageField.full(external=False)

0.5.1 (2018-03-12)

• Fix local backend list_files() nested directories handling

0.5.0 (2018-03-12)

• Added metadata method to Storage to retrieve file metadata

• Force boto3 >= 1.4.5 because of API change (lifecycle)

• Drop Python 3.3 support

• Create parent directories when opening a local file in write mode

0.4.1 (2017-06-24)

• Fix broken packaging for Python 2.7

0.4.0 (2017-06-24)

• Added backend level configuration FS_{BACKEND_NAME}_{KEY}

• Improved backend documentation

• Use setuptools entry points to register backends.

• Added NONE extensions specification

• Added list_files to Storage to list the current bucket files

• Image optimization preserve file type as much as possible

• Ensure images are not overwritted before rerendering

0.3.0 (2017-03-05)

• Switch to pytest

• ImageField optimization/compression. Resized images are now compressed. Default image can also be optimized on upload with FS_IMAGES_OPTIMIZE = True or by specifying optimize=True as field parameter.

• ImageField has now the ability to rerender images with the rerender() method.

0.2.1 (2017-01-17)

• Expose Python 3 compatibility

0.2.0 (2016-10-11)

• Proper github publication

• Initial S3, GridFS and Swift backend implementations

• Python 3 fixes

0.1 (2015-04-07)

• Initial release