Day #103 - Hosting a flask Rest API

This post is on hosting a flask / rest API. This requires flask package. In Python 3.4 It was straight forward implementation

To execute run the code in python console - python example_gist.py

	import flask
	from flask import Flask, request
	from shutil import copyfile
	import subprocess
	import base64
	#Install flask
	app = flask.Flask(__name__)
	app.config["DEBUG"] = True
	@app.route('/UploadImagedata')
	def UploadImagedata():
	user = request.args.get('user')
	searchimagedata = str(request.args.get('imagedata'))
	searchimagedata = searchimagedata.strip()
	searchimagedata = searchimagedata.lstrip()
	searchimagedata = searchimagedata.encode()
	searchimagedata = searchimagedata.replace(' ','+')
	fh = open("E:\\MobileTestImage2.jpg", "wb")
	fh.write(searchimagedata.decode('base64'))
	fh.close()
	return searchimagedata
	#http://localhost:5000/UploadImagedata?user=siva&imagedata=XXXX
	@app.route('/UploadImagedatapost', methods=['POST'])
	def UploadImagedatapost():
	req_data = request.get_json()
	print (request.is_json)
	content = request.get_json()
	print (content)
	searchimagedata = req_data["imagedata"]
	print(searchimagedata)
	data = base64.b64decode(searchimagedata)
	fh = open("E:\\MobileTestImage2.jpg", "wb")
	fh.write(data)
	fh.close()
	return "data is " + searchimagedata
	#should be the last line of code
	app.run(host= '0.0.0.0')

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