Raw request

[jcampbell05]

Hey, so we would like to consume the raw request, but it seems it's not possible. The reason for doing this is the body contains binary data we need to consume as is.

[greyli]

Could you provide some minimal examples? What's your request data look like? If it's not related to OpenAPI generation, you may need to request this feature in Flask itself.

[jcampbell05]

Could you provide some minimal examples? What's your request data look like? If it's not related to OpenAPI generation, you may need to request this feature in Flask itself.

Yes so the request will look like this:

POST /upload
Content-Type: image.jpeg
Body: <image data>

We can grab the reqeust data from flask like so:

from flask import request
from apiflask import App

app = App()

@app.post('/upload')
def upload():
   request.body # Do something with the body

The issue is there isn't anyway to tell APIFlask to emit a spec which indicates the endpoint accepts binary data as the body nor does there seem to be a way override manually the generated spec via the api.doc decorator when we need to bypass the default behaviour beyond a global app level decorator which is a bit more complicated to do.