Django: Getting Started Transcripts
Chapter: Receiving Uploads in Django
Lecture: Adding an 'ImageField' and configuring media files
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To demonstrate uploads, I'm going to add the ability to associate a picture of an author with their model object.
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To do that, I'll be adding an image field to the author and configuring Django to allow the ability to upload those same files.
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First off, let's edit the author model to add the image field. That's pretty much it from an object perspective. It's simply a new field.
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Note that I'm allowing it to be both blank and null so that the field can be empty in forms and null in the database if I did otherwise,
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the picture would be mandatory. Which in addition to being a pain for adding an author
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would impact existing data in our database, because this field is allowed to be empty.
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The migration process is simple and Django will set this field to empty for any existing author data.
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More on this in a future chapter on database migrations. Those files that I want to upload have to go somewhere and you have to tell
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Django where that is and what URL to serve them under. Let me modify settings.py, scrolling all the way to the bottom.
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The media route configuration tells Django where to put uploaded files. The pattern I usually use is to go up one directory from the Django project.
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Hence the parent attribute, then in a folder named uploads. Then in a folder named after the project,
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I do this so that if I'm hosting multiple projects on the same server. I don't have to worry about file name clashes across the projects.
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The media URL configuration tells Django what you are able to use when serving these files.
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This is similar to the static URL concept you've seen earlier The next change I'm going to make is inside of alexandria.URLs
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I'm going to do this so that the DEV server can serve the media files.