Unable to get request.FILES django - django

Question

I am trying to upload a text file to my django backend, but my request.FILES is always empty.
I am using axios to send the file and have followed the django requirement to have 'multipart/form-data' as content type of the request.
What am I missing?
On my app.js I send a post request via:
new Vue({
el: '#app',
data: {
reqtype: '',
uploadedFile: '',
},
methods: {
onSubmit(event) {
this.submitLoading = true;
if (! this.validateForm(this)) {
event.preventDefault();
this.submitLoading = false;
return;
}
var formData = new FormData();
formData.append("reqtype", this.reqtype)
formData.append('fileToUpload', this.uploadedFile)
axios.post('/sreqtool/tc/', formData, {
headers: {
'Content-Type': 'multipart/form-data'
}
})
},
onFileChange(e) {
var files = e.target.files || e.dataTransfer.files;
if (!files.length)
return;
var reader = new FileReader();
var vm = this;
reader.onload = (e) => {
vm.uploadedFile = e.target.result;
};
reader.readAsDataURL(files[0]);
}
},
}
On the network request payload:
------WebKitFormBoundarymAnl54hGVTifZzwM Content-Disposition: form-data; name="reqtype"
filebased
------WebKitFormBoundarymAnl54hGVTifZzwM Content-Disposition: form-data; name="fileToUpload"
data:text/plain;base64,OTA1NTIzMzg2NQ0KOTE3NTAwMTU0Mg0KOTc3NDczNjcyNg0KMTIzNTQ2ODQ1Ng==
------WebKitFormBoundarymAnl54hGVTifZzwM--
In my views.py I have:
#csrf_exempt
def index(request):
if request.method == 'POST':
DLOG.info(request.POST)
DLOG.info(request.FILES)
form = ExtractForm(request.POST, request.FILES)
if form.is_valid():
res = QueryManager.processRequest(request.user, form.cleaned_data)
DLOG is my logger and the output of the dlog is:
[2017-12-18 16:51:06,510] INFO views index: <QueryDict: {u'fileToUpload': [u'data:text/plain;base64,OTA1NTIzMzg2NQ0KOTE3NTAwMTU0Mg0KOTc3NDczNjcyNg0KMT
IzNTQ2ODQ1Ng=='], u'reqtype': [u'filebased']}>
[2017-12-18 16:51:06,512] INFO views index: <MultiValueDict: {}>

Answer 1

it says your image encoded to base64
{u'fileToUpload': [u'data:text/plain;base64,OTA1NTIzMzg2NQ0KOTE3NTAwMT...

Answer 2

I am able to read the file content now.
I used the link from Farrukh's comment a
stackoverflow answer
Code is updated to:
#csrf_exempt
def index(request):
if request.method == 'POST':
form = ExtractForm(request.POST, request.FILES)
if form.is_valid():
res = QueryManager.processRequest(request.user, form.cleaned_data)
format, imgstr = data.split(';base64,')
ext = format.split('/')[-1]
data = ContentFile(base64.b64decode(imgstr), name='temp.' + ext)
filetext = data.read()
filetext contains the string I need from the file.