Quickstart¶

Warning

This package is under development. It is currently used in production but the API is currently subject to changes so users should use this package with caution.

1 Install Flask-Servatus via pip¶

$ pip install Flask-Servatus

2 Initialise and configure the `Servatus` application object¶

from flask import Flask
from flask.ext.servatus import Servatus

app = Flask(__name__)
servatus = Servatus(app)

#.init_app() interface is also availble..

def factory(arg, arg2):

    app = Flask(__name__)
    servatus = Servatus()
    servatus.init_app(app)

    return app

3 Use your prefered storages object to save files.¶

from flask import Flask
from flask.ext.servatus import Servatus
from flask.ext.servatus.files import ContentFile
from flask.ext.servatus.storages import get_default_storage

app = Flask(__name__)
servatus = Servatus(app)

storage = get_default_storage()

@app.route('/uploads', methods=['GET', 'POST'])
def handle_upload():
    # handle uploaded file from user subitted form..

    storage.save('foo.txt', request.files['file'])