from flask import Flask, request, jsonify, render_template, redirect, url_for
from werkzeug import secure_filename
import os

app = Flask(__name__)
app.config["UPLOAD_FOLDER"] = "images/" #this specifies the upload path

@app.route("/", methods = ["GET", "POST"])
def api_home():
    if (request.method == "POST"):
        image_name = request.form["image_name"] #get the name although it is useless for this example
        file = request.files["image_file"] #get the file
        filename = secure_filename(file.filename) # get the secure file name.
        #
        file.save(os.path.join(app.config["UPLOAD_FOLDER"], filename))
        return redirect(url_for("api_home",filename=filename))
    else:
        return render_template("index.html")

if (__name__ == "__main__"):
    app.run(debug=True)