Allow creating model and saving file in one request

[abzainuddin]

Now you have to:

1. save the model
2. save the file

Maybe some special sauce for multiput?

[stefanmajoor]

Maybe integrate the ImageView from HN directly too?

[irfinnew]

@abzainuddin But file uploads require a multipart/form-data body, rather than a plain json body.

I can see two possible ways to achieve this:

• Post the image base64-encoded as part of the json
• Post both the image and the json body in a multipart/form-data body

[abzainuddin]

POSTing base64 might be slow, especially for bigger files / mobile devices. I would prefer option 2.

[irfinnew]

Would option 2 be reasonable to implement in the FE?

[SpaceK33z]

@mmoreaux yes (Burhan asked me to approve this). So in the form data there would be a file field and a data field, where the file field contains the blob and the data field stringified JSON, right?

[irfinnew]

@SpaceK33z Something like that, yes. Would that be OK?

The details will probably differ a bit, e.g. to accommodate multiple images on a single entity, or on a single multiput. But that mainly involves having unique names for the file parts, and attaching them to the proper file field.

Maybe like this:

POST /api/foo/

form-data data: text

{
	"name": "Foo",
	"barness:" 5,
	"cover_image": "form:cover_image1",
	"other_image": "form:c440aa6"
}

form-data file_cover_image1: file

form-data file_c440aa6: file

(having the form: prefix allows us to add base64: and other prefixes in the future)

[SpaceK33z]

Yes, that would be okay.