How can I get upload files?

[MarkAntipin]

Description

How can I get upload files?
Is it possible to do it like in flask?

Additional context
In docs you have:

@app.post("/")
async def some_end(files: List[UploadFile] = File(...)):
    return [file.file for file in files]

but, i want to pass files with 'keys' like file1, file2...
In flask i can just write

from flask import request

for f in request.files:
    pass

So how can i do it in fastAPI?

[euri10]

😳
not clear what you mean, if I understood correctly what you want, in Flask the doc says :

The application accesses the file from the files dictionary on the request object

So request.files in Flask would be kind of equivalent to the files parameter in your FastAPI endpoint above, the difference being files is a list of all the files which are typed as UploadFile, while the other is a dictionary.

Now you can loop through them, get their name, length, type, well whatever you want to do with it, the same way you would do in Flask.

[MarkAntipin]

In flask if i pass a dict of files {'file1': 'file_ob1', file2': 'file_ob2, ...}

for f in request.files:
    print(f)

i will get file1, file2, ...

in fast api i need to specify specify

async def some_end(file1: UploadFile = File(...), file2: UploadFile = File(...)):
    pass

So i want to pass files without specifying keys
Sorry if i'm not clear enough

[euri10]

I don't think so it's a list of files you get, can't confirm for sure, but I will do later Maybe check https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/tutorial/request-files/#multiple-file-uploads Le ven. 13 sept. 2019 à 9:28 PM, MarkAntipin <notifications@github.com> a écrit :

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In flask if i pass a dict of files {'file1': 'file_ob1', file2': 'file_ob2, ...} for f in request.files: print(f) i will get file1, file2, ... in fast api i need to specify specify async def some_end(file1: UploadFile = File(...), file2: UploadFile = File(...)): pass So i want to pass files without specifying keys Sorry if i'm not clear enough — You are receiving this because you commented. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#527>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAINSPWO7OFWCB4W5PQ452LQJPSVLANCNFSM4IWTCHFA> .

[MarkAntipin]

Ok, thank you anyway

[tiangolo]

Thanks for the help here @euri10 ! 👏 🙇

Thanks for reporting back and closing the issue 👍

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@MarkAntipin you could use the request directly and extract the files, but you would lose the OpenAPI generation, UI docs, etc. https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/advanced/using-request-directly/