Liriela,
AFAIK it is not possible to programmatically populate a file input
field, due to the many security exploits this would enable. If it were
possible, it would be trivial to write a malicious script that would
upload any file from a user's PC, so long as you knew the path.
There are browser-specific exceptions, for example, in Netscape-based
browsers you can call
netscape.security.PrivilegeManager.enablePrivilege("UniversalFileRead")
(see
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/components/signed-script-example.html).
This needs to be called from a signed script, and I believe will still
trigger a pop-up dialog to confirm the enhanced permission request. I
imagine this might be more trouble than it's worth though.
As an alternative testing method, you might consider using curl. You'd
do something like:
curl http://localhost:8000/submit/test -F id_title=Test -F
[email protected] -F id_file=@/path/to/test.txt -u
username:password
Note the @ symbol in front of the value for file_id - that tells curl
that the value is a file, not a string.
I've only really used this method when testing an API which returned
JSON data, which is easily viewable in the console. If your view is
returning HTML, you might pipe the output to a file to open in a
browser.
Hope that helps,
Chris
On Dec 21, 5:14 am, Liriela <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I am working now on a web server and come up with a problem. I want to
> have on my site a button which will load test data into a form -> for
> example -> a form has fileds: name and email -> the button will load
> into the fields values defined by me. That is not a problem for all
> the data that is served by request.POST. But the problem shows up when
> I have a FileField in my forms and I want to load a file into that
> field. The solution that I have found probably loads somehow the file
> into request.FILES dictionary (so the file is bound to the form) -
> because there is no non-field error shown, but after pressing the
> submit button the non field error occurs (so the file is lost). And
> the name of the file is not shown in the form. (I am using django
> version 1.2.3 and python version 2.6.6 )
>
> Here are my forms, views and template for that:
>
> forms.py
> (...)
> class Test(forms.Form):
> ''''''
>
> title = forms.CharField(max_length = 30, required = True)
> email = forms.EmailField(required=False)
> test_file = forms.FileField()
>
> views.py
>
> from django.core.files.uploadedfile import SimpleUploadedFile
> (...)
> def load_test_analysis(request):
> """ """
> f = open('/path/test.txt','r')
> post_data = {'title':'Test ',
> 'email' : '[email protected]'}
> file_data = {'alignment': SimpleUploadedFile('test.txt',
> f.read())}
> form = Test(post_data, file_data)
> return render_to_response('test.html', {'form': form})
>
> test.html
>
> {% extends 'master.html' %}
>
> {% block content %}
>
> <div id="content">
>
> <table>
> <tr>
> <td>
> <h1>Teste</h1>
> </td>
> <td align="right">
> <input type="button" onclick="window.location.href='/
> submit/model/test/'" value="Load test data"/>
> </td>
> </tr>
> </table>
>
> <form name="myForm" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data"
> action="/submit/test/">
>
> <p><label for="id_title">Title:</label> {{ form.title }}
> <ul class="errorlist"><li>{{ form.title.errors }}</li></ul>
> </p>
>
> <p><label for="id_file">File:</label> {{ form.file }}</p>
> <ul class="errorlist"><li>{{ form.file.errors }}</li></ul>
> <ul class="errorlist"><li>{{ form.non_field_errors }}</li></ul>
>
> <p><label for="id_email">Email:</label> {{ form.email }}
> <ul class="errorlist"><li> {{form.email.errors}} </li></ul>
> </p>
>
> <input id="submit" class="submit" type="submit" value="Test" />
> <input type="reset" value="Reset" name="inputForm"/>
> </form>
>
> </div>
>
> {% endblock %}
>
> Hope someone will be able to help me with that.
>
> Best,
> Liriela
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