EPS Image Upload Format?

[darecAdirondack]

Im not sure what format i should use to upload an image to my listings. The Trading API docs say that you should first call UploadSiteHostedPictures,this is how i sent my request.:

According to the Docs, im supposed to use PictureData which is described as:

PictureData ( Base64BinaryType (base64Binary) ) [0..1] An optional reference ID to the binary attachment. The PictureData field does not contain the binary attachment. The binary attachment is image data, including the headers, from a JPG, GIF, PNG, BMP, or TIF format image file. The binary attachment must be sent as a MIME attachment, in your POST request, after the XML input.

but im not sure what a MIME request even is, or how i would prepare it for sending. could anyone offer some assistance here? i thought maybe just inserting the path would work like so, but received an exception.

api.execute('UploadSiteHostedPictures',{'PictureData': 'C:/MyImage.jpg'})

Traceback (most recent call last): File "<pyshell#4>", line 1, in api.execute('UploadSiteHostedPictures',{'PictureData': 'C:/My Python/cool.jpg'}) File "C:\Users\OhioAuto\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\lib\site-packages\ebaysdk\connection.py", line 124, in execute self.error_check() File "C:\Users\OhioAuto\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\lib\site-packages\ebaysdk\connection.py", line 213, in error_check raise ConnectionError(estr, self.response) ebaysdk.exception.ConnectionError: 'UploadSiteHostedPictures: Class: RequestError, Severity: Error, Code: 20170, Schema XML request error. Schema XML request error: Bad character or insufficient number of characters in hex string.'

[timotheus]

You have two options

1. Upload from file system https://github.com/timotheus/ebaysdk-python/blob/master/samples/trading.py#L227

2. Upload via External Source https://github.com/timotheus/ebaysdk-python/blob/master/samples/trading.py#L207

[darecAdirondack]

thanks, that helped me move onto the next few steps, but it seems im stuck again.

        from PIL import Image
        with Image.open(String_NewFileName) as im:
                im.thumbnail((1600,1600))
                with io.BytesIO() as fp:
                    im.save(fp, "JPEG")
                    files = {'file': ('EbayImage', fp.getvalue())}
                    pictureData = { "WarningLevel": "High", 
                                "PictureSet":'Supersize', "PictureName": "WorldLeaders"}
                    response = api.execute('UploadSiteHostedPictures', pictureData, files=files)
                    print(response.reply.SiteHostedPictureDetails.FullURL)

        Traceback (most recent call last):
          File "<pyshell#23>", line 1, in <module>
            ListItems("sandbox")
          File "C:\My Python\AddItem_SingleUpload - Copy.py", line 108, in ListItems
            response = api.execute('UploadSiteHostedPictures', pictureData, files=files)
          File "C:\Users\OhioAuto\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\lib\site-packages\ebaysdk\connection.py", line 119, in execute
            self.build_request(verb, data, verb_attrs, files)
          File "C:\Users\OhioAuto\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\lib\site-packages\ebaysdk\connection.py", line 154, in build_request
            data=smart_encode_request_data(requestData),
          File "C:\Users\OhioAuto\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\lib\site-packages\ebaysdk\utils.py", line 95, in smart_encode_request_data
            return value.encode('utf-8')
        AttributeError: 'dict' object has no attribute 'encode'

[darecAdirondack]

It looks like what i had to do to fix my next problem of AttributeError: 'dict' object has no attribute 'encode' was to open up "AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\lib\site-packages\ebaysdk\utils.py"

and change the line return value.encode('utf-8') to return value and it seemed to work for me fine after that.

big thanks!