BinaryField - Django Models - GeeksforGeeks

05 Aug, 2021
BinaryField is a special field to store raw binary data. It can be assigned bytes, bytearray, or memoryview. By default, BinaryField sets editable to False, that is it can’t be included in a ModelForm. Since BinaryField stores raw data or in other terms a python object, it can not be manually entered and needs to be assigned through a view or django shell. This is what editable to False means, that is it can’t be edited through any form.
Syntax
field_name = models.BinaryField(**options)
Illustration of BinaryField 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.  
Python3
from django.db import modelsfrom django.db.models import Model# Create your models here. class GeeksModel(Model):    geeks_field = models.BinaryField()
Add the geeks app to INSTALLED_APPS 
Python3
# 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  
Python3
# 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.BinaryField()),            ],        ),    ]
Thus, an geeks_field BigIntegerField is created when you run makemigrations on the project.It is a field to store raw binary data. 
Any type of data can be converted into bytes including integers, strings, images, etc. Let’s try to save a string into the BinaryField. String can be converted to bytes using the generic bytes function. This function internally points to CPython Library which implicitly calls the encode function for converting the string to the specified encoding.  
Python3
# importing the model# from geeks appfrom geeks.models import GeeksModel # creating a stringtest_string = "GFG is best" # creating a bytes objectres = bytes(test_string, 'utf-8') # creating a instance of# GeeksModelgeek_object = GeeksModel.objects.create(geeks_field = res)geek_object.save()
Now let’s check it in admin server. We have created an instance of GeeksModel 
Possible errorsAs specified, BinaryField is a non-editable field, if you manually try to make it editable using editable=True it will create unexpected errors. It should be created in a function so that objects can be allocated to it. 
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 BinaryField will enable it to store empty values for that table in relational database. 
Here are the option and attributes that an BinaryField can use. 
 
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