[Answered ]-Django-rest-framework and uploading images

Finally I am able to upload image using Django.
Here is my working code

views.py

class FileUploadView(APIView):
# parser_classes = (MultiPartParser, FormParser, )
parser_classes = (FileUploadParser, )

# media_type = 'multipart/form-data'
# format = 'jpg'

def post(self, request, format='jpg'):
    up_file = request.FILES['file']
    destination = open('/Users/Username/' + up_file.name, 'wb+')
    for chunk in up_file.chunks():
        destination.write(chunk)
        destination.close()

    # ...
    # do some stuff with uploaded file
    # ...
    return Response(up_file.name, status.HTTP_201_CREATED)

urls.py

urlpatterns = patterns('', 
url(r'^imageUpload', views.FileUploadView.as_view())

curl request to upload

curl -X POST -S -H -u "admin:password" -F "file=@img.jpg;type=image/jpg" 127.0.0.1:8000/resourceurl/imageUpload

The image field doesn’t store the image but rather a link to it. Do you have MEDIA_URL set in settings? eg MEDIA_URL = ‘/media/’ If you’re running on localhost you should find the image at localhost/media/profiles/image_name.png