Yup, that did it! Thanks for pointing that out! That article was hard to find in the documentation.
On Sep 12, 7:58 pm, "A. Rossi" <yobliat...@gmail.com> wrote: > I had not considered writing a custom Storage class. I may try that if > there are no other alternatives. > > Any other ideas/solutions? > > On Sep 12, 5:31 am, vinilios <vinil...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Have you read this ? > > >http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/custom-file-storage/ > > > haven't used any custom file storage yet but maybe using a custom file- > > storage with a dummy save method when file exists is what you need. > > > On Sep 12, 1:43 pm, "A. Rossi" <yobliat...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I have an application where users can upload images, then the image is > > > renamed to a SHA256 hash of the file's contents. > > > Here is the relevant snippet of the model > > > > class ImagePost(Post): > > > def imgurl(self, filename): > > > import hashlib, os.path > > > extension = os.path.splitext(filename) > > > self.image.seek(0) > > > return "images/%s%s" % (hashlib.sha256(self.image.read > > > (self.image.size)).hexdigest(), extension[1]) > > > > image = models.ImageField(upload_to=imgurl, blank=True) > > > > what I am attempting to do is, if a user uploads an image that already > > > exists (i.e. the two files have the exact same SHA256 hash) I want to > > > have the ImageField point to the already existing file, rather than > > > save the newly uploaded one. I have tried a couple things that didn't > > > work, and the default behavior when dealing with files of the same > > > name is to append an extra _ to the end of the name, before the > > > extension. > > > > I feel like I'm on the cusp of figuring this out, but I'm stuck. Also, > > > would I put the code for this into the imgurl() function, create a > > > custom storage object, in the view(s) directly? > > > > Thank you for your help. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
