File uploads with Clojure, Ring and Compojure
Table of Contents for Clojure Progression
- Compiling Clojure Code with Leiningen
- My Clojure Editor
- Clojure and Cassandra with clj-cassandra
- Flash with HTTP Client Lib and Compojure
- Compojure Sessions with Sandbar
- Clojure and a PicoLisp database via HTTP
- Clojure inheritance
- Sessions and JSON with Ring, Compojure and Flash AS3
- File uploads with Clojure, Ring and Compojure
- MongoDB, Clojure, JSON and PHP – CongoMongo issues and solutions
I just found a great write up on how to upload files by Nikola Plejić. It’s a little bit sparse though so below I’ll revisit it with my own additions.
Let’s start out with the Compojure route in question:
(wrap-multipart-params
(POST "/addbanner*" req
(binding [tutorial/*req* req]
(tutorial/add-banner (req :multipart-params)))))
As you can see we work with the whole request map here and first bind it to be able to later work with various parameters in addition to the form data (in my case validation of data in the query parameters).
(defn add-banner [params]
(let [merchant (login-merchant) banner (get params "banner")]
(if (or (is-empty? (banner :filename)) (nil? merchant))
"no merchant or empty file"
(let [new-name (str (java.util.UUID/randomUUID) "." (last (string/split (banner :filename) #"\.")))]
(ds/copy (banner :tempfile) (ds/file-str (str "banners/" new-name)))
(db/insert-banner merchant new-name)))))
So the goal here is for a merchant to upload a banner that his affiliates can later use, instead of file my file field is named banner. Login-merchant is using the bound req above to fetch the merchant in question. We fetch the file name and keep the file name extension, string refers to clojure.contrib.str-utils2. We create a new unique name for the file with Java’s UUID utility which we concatenate to the extension, this is the new complete file name.
The ds here refers to clojure.contrib.duck-streams, just like in Nikola’s tutorial.
Finally we insert the banner into the database (MongoDB by way of CongoMongo but that is a completely different story).
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Tags: Clojure, compojure, file uploads, ring