UPDATE : thanks to posters below, it's clear that the official documentation is up-to-date. Best to read that carefully rather than skim a bunch of other pages that turn up in Google. I keep finding examples and snippets for uploading files in Django, but then reading people saying that they're out of date. Here are my basic confusio...
Hello, I am trying to do a model with a file that shouldn't be modified. But the comment of the file can be. Here is what I did, but we cannot modify the comment. How can I test if a new file (using the browse button) as been sent and in this case only, create a new instance of the model ? If no upload of a new file, update the comment...
Hi everyone, I have read the documentation several times, but I am still confused. When you specify a model in Django, you can specify the file's destination. However, in the documentation, they go on a great deal about handling the write to disk manually. My question is: Is it better to just say form.save() or to write a file handler w...
Hello everyone, I have checked several other threads but I am still having a problem. I have a model that includes a FileField and I am generating semi-random instances for various purposes. However, I am having a problem uploading the files. When I create a new file, it appears to work (the new instance is saved to the database), a f...
I'm trying to edit an existing object through a form. Every thing is working fine except for the ImageField not being populated with the current value. Here's the model: class Post(models.Model): author = models.ForeignKey(User, editable=False) slug = models.SlugField(max_length = 110, editable=False) title = models.CharFi...
How do I get the size and name of a FileField in a template? My model is setup like this: class PDFUpload(models.Model): user = models.ForeignKey(User, editable=False) desc = models.CharField(max_length=255) file = models.FileField(upload_to=upload_pdf) My template is setup like this: {% for download in downloads %} ...
I've got a field in my model of type FileField. This gives me an object of type type File, which has the following method: File.name: The name of the file including the relative path from MEDIA_ROOT. What I want is something like .filename that will only give me the filename and not the path as well something like: {% for download i...
I am trying to attach a file with a contact form. My code looks like this for the form and view: if request.method == 'POST': form = UploadCVForm(request.POST, request.FILES) if form.is_valid(): # All validation rules pass subject = "CV Sent from BiztechAfrica" sender = form.cleaned_data['email'] message ...
How can I limit the type of files of the email attachments sent by my contact form to Doc, Docx, PDF? ...
How can I have a form with a FileField, where the uploaded file will not be saved but instead its text contents will be extracted and displayed? ...
Hi, I have a model with a FileField in it: class DocumentUpload(models.Model): document_name = models.CharField(max_length=100, blank=True) document_path = models.FileField(upload_to='uploads') and a form which uses this model class DocumentUploadForm(forms.ModelForm): class Meta: model = DocumentUpload When I...
Hi all I have a Django app which, submitting a package, should return values that are inside it.. Submitted the form to a view called "insert": request.FILES['file'] returns the file objects, but it is of kind < InMemoryUploadedFile>. What i need is a way to get the absolute path of the uploaded file, so that i can feed it to a metho...
I've got a model like this: class Talk(BaseModel): title = models.CharField(max_length=200) mp3 = models.FileField(upload_to = u'talks/', max_length=200) seconds = models.IntegerField(blank = True, null = True) I want to validate before saving that the uploaded file is an MP3, like this: def is_mp3(path_to_...
So, I'm working on implementing the answer to my previous question. Here's my model: class Talk(models.Model): title = models.CharField(max_length=200) mp3 = models.FileField(upload_to = u'talks/', max_length=200) Here's my form: class TalkForm(forms.ModelForm): def clean(self): super(TalkForm, self).clean(...
In my django application I have a multi step registration, with few conditional parameters. Because of this I figured out to store data from forms in session. Unfortunatelly sessions serialize data using pickle, which doesn't support file serialization and causes PicklingError: Can't pickle <type 'cStringIO.StringO'>: attribute lookup cS...
I'm trying to take an UploadedFile, convert it to a PIL Image object to thumbnail it, and the convert the PIL Image object that my thumbnailer returns back into a File object. How the heck can I do this? ...
I'm building a django application that will be operated via desktop application. Key feature for now is sending/storing files. Basically I need a django view with URL on which I can send files with POST and this view will store the files. Currently I have something like this : def upload(request): for key, file in request.FILES.item...