Question

I need this because I am using AJAX to transfer a file, hence I get an image file in a base64 encoded string. I would like to convert this nicely to the FileStorage object so I can use flask-uploads library nicely. Any idea how I can do this? Thanks!

Answer 1

def open_file(file_name):
    """
    opens file in samples, and return base64 encoded streams.
        feel free to use this code if it is helpful.
    """
    from backend import backend
    sample_dir = backend.config["samples_dir"]
    file = open(os.path.join(sample_dir, file_name), 'r')
    stream = file.read()
    encoded_stream = base64.b64encode(stream)
    return encoded_stream