pass complete flask request to handler.py

[dschulten]

Passing the entire request to the handler opens a number of possibilities, among them support for multipart/form-data. Based on this change, I can create a function that accepts multiple pdf files as multipart/form-data and joins them into a single pdf:

from PyPDF2 import PdfFileMerger, PdfFileReader
from flask import send_file
import tempfile

def handle(req):
    """handle a request to the function
    Args:
        req (request): flask request
    """
    files = req.files
    file_storages = files.getlist("files")
    merger = PdfFileMerger()

    for file_storage in file_storages:
        pdfFileReader = PdfFileReader(file_storage)
        merger.append(pdfFileReader)

    fout = tempfile.TemporaryFile()
    merger.write(fout)

    for file_storage in file_storages:
        file_storage.close()

    fout.seek(0)
    return send_file(fout, 'application/pdf')

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[alexellis]

Hi @dschulten as nice as this sounds, it's a breaking change and can't be merged due to the effect on our existing users.

Btw. all changes must be proposed through an issue and approved before being worked on.

Alex