Hello Massimo!
I bypass the form.proccess because this is a web service used by an iOS
app. I do all frontend stuff in iOS and call this web service from the
device.
And regarding to change the name of the file, is it possible?
kind regards!
El viernes, 4 de enero de 2013 04:11:16 UTC+1, Massimo Di Pierro escribió:
>
> You can do
>
> row.update(avatar=db.tablename.avatar.store(request.post_vars[
> 'upload_field']))
>
> by why bypess form.process()? it does it for you.
>
> On Thursday, 3 January 2013 15:57:24 UTC-6, Wonton wrote:
>>
>> Hello!
>>
>> I'm trying to implement uploading user's avatar. I've tried to follow the
>> image blog example from the book and some of the posts related to this
>> issue in this forum and I'm still a bit confused and I don't know if I
>> could do certain things or how to do them.
>>
>> What I would like to achieve is this:
>>
>> -Upload the avatar and store it in the file system. The link to the file
>> will be stored in the database. As far as I know this is possible with
>> Field('avatar', 'upload').
>> But, my first doubt: could I store the image file with a custom name, for
>> example <auth_user.username>.jpg? I see that the file has a strange name
>> when it's stored.
>>
>> -I would like the image to be public, anyone could see that image in any
>> browser through its link.
>> But, my second doubt: the content of the avatar field in my database is a
>> File, and when I go to that link I see the content of the file in the URL
>> and don't see the image.
>>
>> Finally, my last doubt, in my web service I access the image data through
>> request.post_vars. If I print this data I get something like this:
>> <Storage {'upload_field': FieldStorage('upload_field', 'myphoto_1.jpg',
>> '\xff\xd8\
>> ... ... ...\x04\xd9')}>
>> I guess I have to store the image in the database with this:
>> row.update(avatar=request.post_vars['upload_field'])
>> Am I right?
>>
>>
>> Thank you very much!
>>
>>
>>
>>
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