Class MediaUpload

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        MediaUpload

Known Subclasses:

• MediaIoBaseUpload

Describes a media object to upload.

Base class that defines the interface of MediaUpload subclasses.

Note that subclasses of MediaUpload may allow you to control the chunksize when uploading a media object. It is important to keep the size of the chunk as large as possible to keep the upload efficient. Other factors may influence the size of the chunk you use, particularly if you are working in an environment where individual HTTP requests may have a hardcoded time limit, such as under certain classes of requests under Google App Engine.

Streams are io.Base compatible objects that support seek(). Some MediaUpload subclasses support using streams directly to upload data. Support for streaming may be indicated by a MediaUpload sub-class and if appropriate for a platform that stream will be used for uploading the media object. The support for streaming is indicated by has_stream() returning True. The stream() method should return an io.Base object that supports seek(). On platforms where the underlying httplib module supports streaming, for example Python 2.6 and later, the stream will be passed into the http library which will result in less memory being used and possibly faster uploads.

If you need to upload media that can't be uploaded using any of the existing MediaUpload sub-class then you can sub-class MediaUpload for your particular needs.

Chunk size for resumable uploads.

Returns:
  Chunk size in bytes.

Mime type of the body.

Returns:
  Mime type.

Size of upload.

Returns:
  Size of the body, or None of the size is unknown.

Whether this upload is resumable.

Returns:
  True if resumable upload or False.

Get bytes from the media.

Args:
  begin: int, offset from beginning of file.
  length: int, number of bytes to read, starting at begin.

Returns:
  A string of bytes read. May be shorter than length if EOF was reached
  first.

Does the underlying upload support a streaming interface.

Streaming means it is an io.IOBase subclass that supports seek, i.e.
seekable() returns True.

Returns:
  True if the call to stream() will return an instance of a seekable io.Base
  subclass.

A stream interface to the data being uploaded.

Returns:
  The returned value is an io.IOBase subclass that supports seek, i.e.
  seekable() returns True.

Utility function for creating a JSON representation of a MediaUpload.

Args:
  strip: array, An array of names of members to not include in the JSON.

Returns:
   string, a JSON representation of this instance, suitable to pass to
   from_json().

Create a JSON representation of an instance of MediaUpload.

Returns:
   string, a JSON representation of this instance, suitable to pass to
   from_json().

Utility class method to instantiate a MediaUpload subclass from a JSON
representation produced by to_json().

Args:
  s: string, JSON from to_json().

Returns:
  An instance of the subclass of MediaUpload that was serialized with
  to_json().