What version of web2py are you using?
On Wednesday, August 14, 2013 9:22:57 PM UTC-4, at wrote:
>
> Thanks a lot anthony,
> db(db.mytable.id==24).update(file1=db.mytable.file1.store(request.vars.
> file1))
> works,
>
> whereas
> db(db.mytable.id==24).update(file1=request.vars.file1)
> gives error:
> <class 'gluon.contrib.pg8000.errors.ProgrammingError'> ('ERROR', '22001',
> 'value too long for type character varying(512)')
>
> PS. I'd replied to your post yesterday, but somehow it was not posted
>
> On Tuesday, 13 August 2013 19:19:44 UTC+5, Anthony wrote:
>>
>> On Tuesday, August 13, 2013 9:20:47 AM UTC-4, at wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Here is my controller code:
>>> def test_upload:
>>> if request.vars.file1 is not None:
>>> result = db(db.mytable.id
>>> ==24).update(file1=request.vars.file1.file)
>>>
>>
>> request.vars.file1 is a cgi.FieldStorage object. The original filename is
>> therefore in request.vars.file1.filename. request.vars.file1.file is a
>> temporary file on the filesystem, and it does not contain the original
>> filename (instead, it has a temporary filename with no extension). If you
>> want to manually insert an uploaded file, you should pass the
>> cgi.FieldStorage object to the .insert() or .update() method rather than
>> passing only the .file object from it. So, should be:
>>
>> db(db.mytable.id==24).update(file1=request.vars.file1)
>>
>> which is equivalent to calling:
>>
>> db(db.mytable.id==24).update(file1=db.mytable.file1.store(request.vars.
>> file1))
>>
>> Anthony
>>
>
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