FileField - Django Models - GeeksforGeeks

12 Feb, 2020
FileField is a file-upload field. Before uploading files, one needs to specify a lot of settings so that file is securely saved and can be retrieved in a convenient manner. The default form widget for this field is a ClearableFileInput.
Syntax
field_name = models.FileField(upload_to=None, max_length=254, **options)
FileField has an optional arguments:
FileField.upload_to
This attribute provides a way of setting the upload directory and file name, and can be set in two ways. In both cases, the value is passed to the Storage.save() method. If you specify a string value, it may contain strftime() formatting, which will be replaced by the date/time of the file upload (so that uploaded files don’t fill up the given directory). For example:
class MyModel(models.Model):      # file will be uploaded to MEDIA_ROOT / uploads    upload = models.FileField(upload_to ='uploads/')      # or...    # file will be saved to MEDIA_ROOT / uploads / 2015 / 01 / 30    upload = models.FileField(upload_to ='uploads/% Y/% m/% d/')
If you are using the default FileSystemStorage, the string value will be appended to your MEDIA_ROOT path to form the location on the local filesystem where uploaded files will be stored. If you are using different storage, check that storage’s documentation to see how it handles upload_to.
upload_to may also be a callable, such as a function. This will be called to obtain the upload path, including the filename. This callable must accept two arguments and return a Unix-style path (with forward slashes) to be passed along to the storage system. The two arguments are:
For example:
def user_directory_path(instance, filename):      # file will be uploaded to MEDIA_ROOT / user_<id>/<filename>    return 'user_{0}/{1}'.format(instance.user.id, filename)  class MyModel(models.Model):    upload = models.FileField(upload_to = user_directory_path)
Illustration of FileField using an Example. Consider a project named geeksforgeeks having an app named geeks.
Refer to the following articles to check how to create a project and an app in Django.
How to Create a Basic Project using MVT in Django?
How to Create an App in Django ?
Enter the following code into models.py file of geeks app.
from django.db import modelsfrom django.db.models import Model# Create your models here.  class GeeksModel(Model):    geeks_field = models.FileField()
Add the geeks app to INSTALLED_APPS
# Application definition  INSTALLED_APPS = [    'django.contrib.admin',    'django.contrib.auth',    'django.contrib.contenttypes',    'django.contrib.sessions',    'django.contrib.messages',    'django.contrib.staticfiles',    'geeks',]
Now when we run makemigrations command from the terminal,
Python manage.py makemigrations
A new folder named migrations would be created in geeks directory with a file named 0001_initial.py
# Generated by Django 2.2.5 on 2019-09-25 06:00  from django.db import migrations, models  class Migration(migrations.Migration):      initial = True      dependencies = [    ]      operations = [        migrations.CreateModel(            name ='GeeksModel',            fields =[                ('id',                   models.AutoField(                  auto_created = True,                  primary_key = True,                  serialize = False,                   verbose_name ='ID'                )),                ('geeks_field', models.FileField()),            ],        ),    ]
Now run,
Python manage.py migrate
Thus, an geeks_field FileField is created when you run migrations on the project. It is a field to store any kind of file in the database.
FileField is used for storing files into the database. One can any type of file in FileField. Let’s try storing an image in the model created above.
To start creating instances of model, create an admin account by using the following command.Python manage.py createsuperuser
Python manage.py createsuperuser
Enter a username, email and a secure password. Then in your browser enter the following URL.http://localhost:8000/admin/
http://localhost:8000/admin/
Go to add in front of Geeks Models.
Choose the file you want to upload and click on save. Now let’s check it in admin server. We have created an instance of GeeksModel.
Field Options are the arguments given to each field for applying some constraint or imparting a particular characteristic to a particular Field. For example, adding an argument null = True to FileField will enable it to store empty values for that table in relational database.Here are the field options and attributes that a FileField can use.
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