Form Data & File Uploads
Handle traditional HTML form data and implement file uploads using FastAPI's built-in capabilities.
Form Data Basics
When you fill out a web form (like a login or registration page) and click "submit," the data you entered is often sent as form data.
This is a traditional way for browsers to send information to a server, different from sending JSON in a request body.
Form data can be sent in two main ways:
application/x-www-form-urlencoded: For simple key-value pairs.multipart/form-data: Used when files are involved, or for larger, more complex data.
FastAPI's Form Dependency
FastAPI makes handling form data easy using the Form dependency from fastapi.
It works similarly to Query or Path parameters, but it tells FastAPI to expect the data in the request body as form fields.
You import it like this: from fastapi import FastAPI, Form.