I did miss that thanks! However, I now seem to have an issue with the def my_upload_to(instance, filename) line.
Apparently "self" nor "instance" works here, and so I am getting the error 1 argument given when I need "two". @staticmethod doesn't seem to want to work properly either. Thanks again! On Thursday, December 5, 2013 9:10:13 AM UTC-5, Daniel Roseman wrote: > > On Thursday, 5 December 2013 12:23:52 UTC, Matt Lind wrote: >> >> Ok, I get what what you're saying, but I seem to be having a heck of a >> time getting the randDir passed into the instance to perform the upload. >> >> Here is the new code snippets: >> >> views.py >> instance = Upfile( file = file) >> instance.upload(randDir) >> >> models.py >> >> @staticmethod >> def upload(randDir) >> file = models.FileField( upload_to = MEDIA_ROOT+'/'+randDir) >> >> I am using @staticmethod as I found that otherwise I needed to pass >> "self" and kept getting a NameError "self" not defined. >> >> The error I currently get with the above code is: >> >> TypeError: 'file' is an invalid keyword argument for this function >> >> When clicking my "upload" button. >> >> Thanks >> > > > You can't do that: model fields need to be defined in the model itself, at > declaration time. > > But you seem to have missed the bit in the documentation[1] which > describes how upload_to can be a callable, which does exactly what you want. > > def my_upload_to(instance, filename) > directory = "".join(random.choice(string.ascii_letters) for n in > xrange(12)) > return os.path.join(MEDIA_ROOT, directory, filename) > > class UpFile(models.Model): > file = models.FileField(upload_to=my_upload_to) > > > [1]: > https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.6/ref/models/fields/#django.db.models.FileField.upload_to > > -- > DR. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/879ed008-64fd-4901-8ffc-dfa167eaaf91%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
