how to convert an InMemoryUploadedFile upload to cloudinary in Django=1.11 using cloudinary.uploader.upload()

Question

1. I am trying to upload an image file to cloudinary which I have sent from my django template to a function in views.py

2. The file is in request.FILES['image']

           cloudinary.config(
               cloud_name="p*****",
               api_key="33************",
               api_secret="4***-S***_o*********"
           )
           img_obj = request.FILES['image']
           cloudinary_response = cloudinary.uploader.upload(img_obj)
           image_url = cloudinary_response['url']
   

3. Printing img_obj gives the name of the image (Like : "tree.jpg")

4. cloudinary upload doc is as follows https://cloudinary.com/documentation/image_upload_api_reference#upload

5. The type of img_obj is InMemoryUploadedFile. Now is there a way to convert it to base64 or somthing like that so I can upload.

6. Or any other solution ??

Answer 1

You have a few options:

1. img_obj.file is the actual file object, so you could try uploading that directly.
2. Since an InMemoryUploadedFile is a subclass of File, you can also just open(mode='rb') the file, using standard python file io functions.
3. Or you can try img_obj.file.read()

I would go for the second option:

import base64

with img_obj.open("rb") as image_file:
     encoded_string = base64.b64encode(image_file.read())