The reason I'm trying it is due to a requirement, the data rather than
being sent using a normal post request in a multienc form has to be sent
over in a json string
in the post request containing the base64 encoded image.
On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 18:38 +0200, Maksymus007 wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 10:58 PM, scuzz<garethpri...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm trying to receive a file encoded in a json string and store it in
> > an ImageField. I was hoping to use the standard Django deserialisation
> > like:
> >
> > serializers.deserialize("json", "...snip..., \"myImageField\":
> > \"base64encodedimage\", ...snip...)
> >
> > however it tries to store the image content string directly in the
> > field rather than going through the imagefield file storage mechanism.
> > has anyone solved this?
> >
> > i've got control of the creation of the json string, so i can encode
> > the image however works best. i wasn't expecting base64 strings to
> > just work but that's a separate though related problem. i'm guessing i
> > need a hook into the deserialization to handle images specially but i
> > don't see how to go about it.
> >
> > thanks for any help
> >
>
> I may be wrong, but ImageField handles file upload via POST by
> utilizing request.FILES - which is an array containing information
> about file and generator for reading data - why you try to put there
> raw data ?
>
> >
--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
"Django users" group.
To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to
django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
For more options, visit this group at
http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en
-~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
