Hey, I’m new to Bubble but here is what I am trying to do:
File Uploader > POST API (own Flask app hosted on pythonanywhere for current dev/debug) > returns area of features in file > display this in a text box
My API seems to work: The call is setup as:
- Name:
Upload user file. - Use as: Action.
- Data Type: File.
- Method: POST.
- URL: theUrlForMyAPI
- Body: Form-data.
- Add Parameters:
- Key:
file. - Value: a file from my laptop and ticked the ‘upload file’. I also tried to have it as " <> " but does not seem to change anything:
I can see the right name of the file being returned and the area of the feature in the API plugin.
Now, My workflow is like this and I believe that the problem is that I can’t select anything else than the URL response from my API…:
I have tried to return different values from the API but none seem to work (but the flow works as I can see different file names and area of feature being returned when I upload different files on my bubble app). These are the 2 ways I’ve tried to return things from my API:
1)
return render_template(‘index.html’, file_name=file.filename, area=area)
2)
jsonify({“filename”: file.filename, “area”: area})
I’ve checked and I can get both to return these values on Postman but I can’t display the returned values on my bubble app. I thought I would be able to find the ‘area’ variable from my json return but can’t see it in the workflow…
Do I need to change something on my bubble app or on my Flask app to make it work?