I am trying to upload a file using multipart_encode to realize the MIME process. However, I met the following error AttributeError: multipart_yielder instance has no attribute '__len__'. Below are is my approach, I really appreciate if anyone can give me some suggestions.
url = "https://pi-user-files.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/"
post_data = {}
#data is a dict
post_data['AWSAccessKeyId']=(data['ticket']['AWSAccessKeyId'])
post_data['success_action_redirect']=(data['ticket']['success_action_redirect'])
post_data['acl']=(data['ticket']['acl'])
post_data['key']=(data['ticket']['key'])
post_data['signature']=(data['ticket']['signature'])
post_data['policy']=(data['ticket']['policy'])
post_data['Content-Type']=(data['ticket']['Content-Type'])
#I would like to upload a text file "new 2"
post_data['file']=open("new 2.txt", "rb")
datagen, headers = multipart_encode(post_data)
request2 = urllib2.Request(url, datagen, headers)
result = urllib2.urlopen(request2)
The problem is that in httplib.py, the generator is not detected as such and is treated instead like a string that holds the full data to be sent (and therefore it tries to find its length):
if hasattr(data,'read') and not isinstance(data, array): # generator
if self.debuglevel > 0: print "sendIng a read()able"
....
A solution is to make the generator act like a read()able:
class GeneratorToReadable():
def __init__(self, datagen):
self.generator = datagen
self._end = False
self.data = ''
def read(self, n_bytes):
while not self._end and len(self.data) < n_bytes:
try:
next_chunk = self.generator.next()
if next_chunk:
self.data += next_chunk
else:
self._end = True
except StopIteration:
self._end = True
result = self.data[0:n_bytes]
self.data = self.data[n_bytes:]
return result
and use like so:
datagen, headers = multipart_encode(post_data)
readable = GeneratorToReadable(datagen)
req = urllib2.Request(url, readable, headers)
result = urllib2.urlopen(req)