I have a webpage where the user can upload a PDF file and send it using AJAX to my Flask application. Here is the ajax code:
var formData = new FormData();
formData.append('attachment', document.getElementById("attachment").files[0]);
$.ajax({
type: 'POST',
url: 'process_award_storage',
contentType: false,
processData: false,
data: formData
})
I do not think that this has any problems because I can print out the content and title of file in the python code. Then my flask model is defined as such, using LargeBinary for the PDF attachment:
class AwardStore(db.Model):
__tablename__ = 'awards_store'
id = db.Column(db.Integer, primary_key=True)
...
file = db.Column(db.LargeBinary, nullable=True) #I am sure this is the right file type for PDF saving
Lastly, here is how the AJAX file is saved to the database:
award = AwardStore(name=name, file=request.files['attachment'].read())
db.session.add(award)
db.session.commit()
I can see using my MySQL Workbench that it is saved. However, when I try to download the BLOB from there to the Desktop and open it, it says "Failed to load PDF document". The same happens when I use flask's send_file. It seems like I did everything as I saw online, but something is wrong.
Maybe these warnings are related?:
C:\Users\msolonko\Desktop\NICKFI~1\CACHTM~1\APP_DE~1\virt\lib\site-packages\pymysql\cursors.py:170: Warning: (1300, "Invalid utf8 character string: 'C4E5F2'")
result = self._query(query)
C:\Users\msolonko\Desktop\NICKFI~1\CACHTM~1\APP_DE~1\virt\lib\site-packages\pymysql\cursors.py:170: Warning: (1265, "Data truncated for column 'file' at row 1")
result = self._query(query)
I tried googling them and did not find anything. I appreciate any assistance.
EDIT:
I noticed that small files are typically uploaded and displayed properly. The issue is with files with sizes > ~50kB. The database I am using the AWS RDS, Is there a setting I can change somewhere to enable greater sizes?
