[Update📢] Image service using boto3

app/config.py

@@ -1,11 +1,20 @@
 import os
 from werkzeug.utils import secure_filename
+from dotenv import load_dotenv
+
+
+# loading environment variables from .env file
+load_dotenv()
 
 class Config:
-	SECRET_KEY = os.environ.get('SECRET_KEY') or 'with_this_you-will-never-guess'
-	SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI = os.environ.get(
+	SECRET_KEY = os.getenv('SECRET_KEY') or 'with_this_you-will-never-guess'
+	SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI = os.getenv(
 		'DATABASE_URL') or 'postgresql://spiceshare:fudf2024@localhost/spiceshare_db'
 	SQLALCHEMY_TRACK_MODIFICATIONS = False
 
-	UPLOAD_FOLDER = 'app/static/uploads'
-	ALLOWED_EXTENSIONS = {'jpg', 'jpeg', 'png', 'gif'}
+    # AWS S3 configuration
+	S3_BUCKET = os.getenv('S3_BUCKET_NAME')
+	S3_ACCESS_KEY = os.getenv('AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID')
+	S3_SECRET_KEY = os.getenv('AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY')
+	S3_REGION = os.getenv('AWS_REGION', 'us-east-1')
+	S3_URL = f"https://{S3_BUCKET}.s3.amazonaws.com/"

app/services/image_service.py

@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+import boto3
+from botocore.exceptions import NoCredentialsError, ClientError
+from flask import current_app
+import uuid
+from werkzeug.utils import secure_filename
+
+
+def upload_image_to_s3(image, folder='recipes'):
+	"""Upload image to S3 bucket and retrieve the given image URL"""
+	try:
+		# Generating a random and unique filename for image
+		filename = secure_filename(image.filename)
+		unique_filename = f"{uuid.uuid4().hex}_{filename}"
+
+		# Init the S3 client
+		s3_client = boto3.client(
+			's3',
+			aws_access_key_id=current_app.config['S3_ACCESS_KEY'],
+			aws_secret_access_key=current_app.config['S3_SECRET_KEY'],
+			region_name=current_app.config['S3_REGION']
+		)
+
+		# Upload the file to S3
+		s3_client.upload_fileobj(
+			image,
+			current_app.config['S3_BUCKET'],
+			f"{folder}/{unique_filename}",
+			ExtraArgs={
+				"ACL": "public-read",
+				"ContentType": image.content_type
+			}
+		)
+
+		# Return URL of uploaded image
+		image_url = f"{current_app.config['S3_URL']}{folder}/{unique_filename}"
+		return image_url
+
+
+	except NoCredentialsError:
+		raise ValueError("AWS credentials not available")
+	except ClientError as e:
+		raise ValueError(f"Failed to upload image: {e}")