Flask Framework Cookbook - Second Edition

How to do it...

Now, make some changes to our existing catalog application to accommodate support for file upload and retrieval from S3:

1. First, we need to store the AWS-specific configuration to allow boto to make calls to S3. Add the following statements to the application's configuration file, that is, my_app/__init__.py:

app.config['AWS_ACCESS_KEY'] = 'Amazon Access Key' 
app.config['AWS_SECRET_KEY'] = 'Amazon Secret Key' 
app.config['AWS_BUCKET'] = 'Your S3 Bucket Name' 

2. Next, we need to change our views.py file:

from boto3 

This is the import that we need from boto. Next, we need to replace the following line in create_product():

image.save(os.path.join(app.config['UPLOAD_FOLDER'], filename)) 

This will be replaced with the following ...