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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. 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.
