I am trying to use Valum's Ajax Upload to do file uploads on a Django- based site I am making. Currently I am avoiding a form simply because AU sends the upload as the entirety of the POST data in an ajax request. Right now I have a very naive approach to doing this:
upload = SimpleUploadedFile( filename, request.raw_post_data ) <and then I loop through the chunks to write to disk> This works great... on small files. I've tested with PDFs, various other files, and up to the ~20MB Google Chrome deb package and they all do great. However, if I move up to something like a CD or DVD iso it bombs horribly. Often Django sends back an Out of Memory response. On the surface this makes sense since SimpleUploadedFile is an in-memory version of the upload classes. I cannot see how to use TemporaryUploadedFile because it does not take actual content in its constructor. As a side note: I would think after using up the available RAM it would go to virtual memory, but whatever. So, my question is, how do I get this to work? Is there a better way to read in the file? I tried directly reading the raw_post_data via Python's IO (system uses 2.6.5) but FileIO's ascii encoder/decoder will obviously complain about non-ascii characters when working with binary files. I have not been able to find info on changing the encoder/decoder. I wouldn't mind passing the data into a form and having Django do the work of picking the right upload class and so on, but I cannot figure out how to pass it because something like upload_form = UploadForm( request.POST, request.FILES ) will not work because the POST contains the file and not the normal Django info and FILES does not exist. As I said, I'm not worried about the method of the solution, just that I get something that works! Thanks! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
