On Apr 4, 3:29 pm, "Marty Alchin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I admit I haven't been following this terribly closely, but now that > both #5361 and #2070 are nearing completion, I'm trying to get a good > handle on all of this in case there are any interactions between the > two that I can help with. Yeah, it's an interesting interaction. We can talk about this more on IRC, but let me try to outline a few ideas here. I see both 2070 (one half of it) and 5361 both doing the same thing: representing files. However, they are representing files in different stages of life. One is tied to the database (#5361), and one can potentially be half-written (#2070). I forsee a time when we actually merge these into one, but I think should do this incrementally.
Let's look at the S3 uploading process. There are two ways we can handle the upload and send to S3: 1. Stream the data directly to S3. 2. Stream the data to disk, then send to S3. I think a lot of people might opt to do option (1). In this case, the upload handler will need to stream it to the S3 directly, but it needs to give request.FILES *something* that the user/forms/db layer can interact with. In this case, I gave the example of an S3UploadedFile. It has a size, a way to read data from it, and a filename. In light of #5361, if your backend is S3FileBackend, I would imagine it would notice the S3UploadedFile and say "Oh, saving this is trivial. Let me just save attribute ____". But that doesn't mean you can't save a normal file in the S3FileBackend, does it? Again, this is a little tricky, and to get right you and I will have to work out some more of the details. But I do see them as usefully somewhat separate identities. Cheers, Mike --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
