How to copy InMemoryUploadedFile object to disk

Question

I am trying to catch a file sent with form and perform some operations on it before it will be saved. So I need to create a copy of this file in temp directory, but I don't know how to reach it. Shutil's functions fail to copy this file, since there is no path to it. So is there a way to do this operation in some other way ?

My code :

    image = form.cleaned_data['image']
    temp = os.path.join(settings.PROJECT_PATH, 'tmp')
    sourceFile = image.name (without .name it wasn't working either)
    import shutil
    shutil.copy(sourceFile, temp)

Which raises :

Exception Type: IOError at /
Exception Value: (2, 'No such file or directory')

And the debug :

#  (..)\views.py in function

  67. sourceFile = image.name
  68. import shutil
  69. shutil.copy2(sourceFile, temp) ...

# (..)\Python26\lib\shutil.py in copy2

  92. """Copy data and all stat info ("cp -p src dst").
  93.
  94. The destination may be a directory.
  95.
  96. """
  97. if os.path.isdir(dst):
  98. dst = os.path.join(dst, os.path.basename(src))  
  99. copyfile(src, dst) ... 
 100. copystat(src, dst)
 101.

▼ Local vars
Variable    Value
dst     
u'(..)\\tmp\\myfile.JPG'
src     
u'myfile.JPG'
# (..)\Python26\lib\shutil.py in copyfile

  45. """Copy data from src to dst"""
  46. if _samefile(src, dst):
  47. raise Error, "`%s` and `%s` are the same file" % (src, dst)
  48.
  49. fsrc = None
  50. fdst = None
  51. try:
  52. fsrc = open(src, 'rb') ...
  53. fdst = open(dst, 'wb')
  54. copyfileobj(fsrc, fdst)
  55. finally:
  56. if fdst:
  57. fdst.close()
  58. if fsrc:

▼ Local vars
Variable    Value
dst     
u'(..)\\tmp\\myfile.JPG'
fdst    
None
fsrc    
None
src     
u'myfile.JPG'

Answer 1

Your best course of action is to write a custom Upload handler. See the docs . If you add a "file_complete" handler, you can access the file's content regardless of having a memory file or a temp path file. You can also use the "receive_data_chunck" method and write your copy within it.

Regards

Answer 2

This is similar question, it might help.

import os
from django.core.files.storage import default_storage
from django.core.files.base import ContentFile
from django.conf import settings

data = request.FILES['image'] # or self.files['image'] in your form

path = default_storage.save('tmp/somename.mp3', ContentFile(data.read()))
tmp_file = os.path.join(settings.MEDIA_ROOT, path)