Basically, as it stands today, Django is not very good at uploading
large files because it holds the whole file in memory while it uploads
it. There's no simple answer to the problem, although if you search
the group for "uploading large files" you should find some more info.
On Mar 7, 12:07 pm, "Gerard M" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks a lot Carole and Todd your posts have been so helpful to me,
> I've managed to upload a file !!!, but I have a little problem now, I
> would like to see if any of you or somebody else who reads this can
> help me, the issue is : I can upload small files good, but when it
> comes to bigger files, lets say 10M, the development server fails with
> a long error traceback saying something about "socket.py in read data
> = self._sock.recv(recv_size)"
>
> the code Im using is this:
>
> template for uploading:
>
> {% extends "base.html" %}
>
> {% block title %}
> Uploading File.
> {% endblock %}
>
> {% block content%}
>
> <p>
> <form name="login" method="post" action="/uploading/"
> enctype="multipart/form-data">
>
> <strong>Please enter the file you want to upload:</strong><br />
> {{ form.file }} {{ form.file_file }}
> <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Upload!" / >
> </form>
> <br /><br />
> Currently uploading to c:\Upload
> </p>
> {% endblock %}
>
> the model:
>
> class FileUpload(models.Model):
> file = models.FileField(upload_to='C:/Uploads')
> uptime = models.DateTimeField()
> class Admin:
> list_display = ("uptime", "file")
>
> def __str__(self):
> return self.hwkfile
>
> and the views:
>
> def uploadfile(request):
> manipulator = FileUpload.AddManipulator()
>
> if request.POST:
> # New upload if data was POSTed.
> new_data = request.POST.copy()
> new_data.update(request.FILES)
>
> new_data['uptime_date'] = datetime.date.today().isoformat()
> new_data['uptime_time'] = strftime("%H:%M", localtime())
>
> errors = manipulator.get_validation_errors(new_data)
> print(errors)
> if not errors:
> # No errors found.
> manipulator.do_html2python(new_data)
> manipulator.save(new_data)
> success = "File uploaded"
> return render_to_response('success.html', {'success':
> success})
>
> else:
> # Errors found, not writing to database.
> errorstring = "<br />".join(errors)
> return render_to_response('uploadfail.html',
> {'errorstring':
> errorstring})
> errors = new_data = {} # Errors sent to the
> template, can be
> cleared.
> else:
> # No data POSTed, redirect to /alfin
> return HttpResponseRedirect("/hwk")
>
> def upload(request):
> manipulator = FileUpload.AddManipulator()
> form = forms.FormWrapper(manipulator,{},{})
> return render_to_response('upbin.html', {'form': form} )
>
> Thanks for your help :)
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