Unable to Upload Video to Cloudinary

[JamieB92]

Problem

When uploading a video file to Cloudinary, I get the following error when adding a clip to a post through the API:

Request Method: POST
Request URL:  http://8000-jamieb92-gamerconnectba-uknrxeyki12.ws-eu106.gitpod.io/posts/?vscodeBrowserReqId=1700389889051
Django Version: 3.2.23
Exception Type: Error
Exception Value: Invalid image file
Exception Location: /workspace/.pip-modules/lib/python3.9/site-packages/cloudinary/uploader.py, line 527, in call_api

Model is set to handle an upload to a file using FileField. Cloudinary does accept Video uploads to it as well.

Expected outcome

• Create a new post
• Enter form information
• Add video clip
• POST
• HTTP 200 ok
• View post from postlist
• View clip

[JamieB92]

Bug Fix:

The issue was I hadn't setup Cloudinary to handle Videos in the model as per this documentation: https://pypi.org/project/django-cloudinary-storage/#usage-with-video-files

Steps to fix :

• run the following in the terminal - pip install django-cloudinary-storage[video]
• Import the following to the top of posts model : from cloudinary_storage.storage import VideoMediaCloudinaryStorage from cloudinary_storage.validators import validate_video
• create two separate fields for the image upload and video upload
• in the video upload create as following: upload_clip = models.FileField( upload_to='videos/', blank=True, storage=VideoMediaCloudinaryStorage(), validators=[validate_video])
• in the image upload set as the following: upload_image = models.ImageField(upload_to='images/', blank=True)
• Save and make migrations

Outcome: I am now able to upload a Video and a Image vie the following steps in the API:

• Go to posts URL
• Fill out the form and add a image using upload image
• POST
• View post and click on image URL
• Go back to posts URL
• Fill out form again but add a clip using upload clip
• POST
• View post and click on video URL

Both display the Video or Image uploaded via the API