Uploading file, how validate the kind of file fom django Admin?

Question

Hi guys, im trying to upload videos from django admin, but i cant see how validate upload video files and nothing more.

Any idea?

Thanks

Sorry with my English

Answer 1

The right way to do this is to create a custom ModelForm for your admin class, and write a clean_[video_field_name] method that validates the file and throws a ValidationError if it's not of the correct type.

The docs for doing this are here: Adding custom validation to the admin