I was a little bummed to discover that the Postgres blob support we depend on at work I can't use through Django in a project for myself. I'm trying to keep multiple versions of an original document (including the embedded content that's inside the file) and had planned on using blobs to store the binary data. At some point in the past, it may have been more inefficient to store binary data inside the database, but we have an application at work that stores thousands of reports per day and serves them to a report viewer application. It allows for an environment-agnostic way to retrieve and store those files and I don't have to worry about path prefixes and the various problems of managing a messy directory structure of a large number of files (I guess I'm supposed to just tar up the files using a cron job to back them up? Sounds like a pain).
I'm having to change the way I was planning on handling these files and I'm not sure how to go about doing that. I have an abstract representation of the document as a model and I need to add the uploaded document as a version attached to that document model. It's not date-based, but hash-based. I need to store the file in a directory outside the document root (I don't want the original directly accessible) I guess using some scheme like: "/my/docs/dir/%id1/%id2/%hash/mydoc.doc" How do I get from where Django will put the uploaded file to where I really want the file stored (which is based on values I won't know until everything is saved) and make sure the file field gets updated to reflect the new path? Can I even move the file after it's been uploaded? The whole concept of "upload_to" seems pretty limiting to me because the uploaded file is just the first part of a processing chain that's more interested in what's inside the file than it is with the file itself. I guess I'm just a little fuzzy on how manipulating files is supposed to work doing it the "django way". Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! Jon Brisbin http://jbrisbin.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
