In django changing the file name of uploading file.

Question

Hi

Is it possible to change the file name of the uploading file in the django? I searched, but couldn't find any answer.

My requirement is whenever a file is uploaded its file name should be changed in the following format.

format = userid + transaction_uuid + file_extension

Thank yo very much...

Answer 1

How are you uploading the file? I assume with the FileField.

It appears that in the documentation for FileField.upload_to it says that the *upload_to* field,

may also be a callable, such as a function, which will be called to obtain the upload path, including the filename. This callable must be able to accept two arguments, and return a Unix-style path (with forward slashes) to be passed along to the storage system. The two arguments that will be passed are:

"instance": An instance of the model where the FileField is defined. More specifically, this is the particular instance where the current file is being attached.

"filename":The filename that was originally given to the file. This may or may not be taken into account when determining the final destination path.

So it looks like you just need to make a function to do your name hanlding and return the path.

def update_filename(instance, filename):
    path = "/upload/path/"
    format = instance.userid + instance.transaction_uuid + instance.file_extension
    return os.path.join(path, format)