On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 6:48 PM, Joe Barnhart <joe.barnh...@gmail.com>wrote:

>
> I have a problem.  I want to upload a file into my web2py site which
> does NOT go into a database, but rather will be processed (it is a CSV
> file).


If you are going to use the sql.SQLTable.import_from_csv_file, then see how
appadmin.py does it;

If you want to save it for some later time, then upload as a blob field - it
will go into your apps uploads directory.

Hope that helps

- Yarko

>
>
> The proposed solution is to use form_factory to create the form as
> though a database exists (using SQLField objects).  When I create the
> form with only an "upload" field it seems to make the form correctly,
> but submitting it does not trigger the form.accepts() block in the
> controller.  I can see that
> "request.var.my_field_name" has a value, but it is a FieldStorage
> object and I'm not sure what to do with it.  (FieldStorage is in the
> cgi module, not a web2py object.)
>
> Has anyone done this?  I know this is described in the web2py manual,
> but the section on this topic has errors and is not sufficiently
> developed for me to answer this on my own.
>
> >
>

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