Warning: In many cases, storing files in the database is a BAD idea. Your database will easily become bloated and the performance can degrade rapidly. See this StackExchange post for more information.
This is a custom storage backend for storing files in the database instead of the file system and is a drop-in replacement for Django's FileSystemStorage. Some benefits of this application:
- no changes needed to existing models, it just works (and if it doesn't, open a ticket!)
- django-admin is implemented and can be used to search, upload, download and manage files
- 100% code coverage with unit tests
- Python (2.7, 3.4, 3.5)
- Django (1.8, 1.9)
Installation using pip:
$ pip install django-db-storage
Update settings.py
# Add 'dbstorage' to INSTALLED_APPS
INSTALLED_APPS = [
'dbstorage',
]
# Optionally set DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE
DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE = 'dbstorage.storage.DBStorage'
# Choose a root url for uploaded files
MEDIA_URL = '/media/'Update urls.py
urlpatterns = [
...
dbstorage_url(),
]Run database migrations
$ python manage.py migrate
No modification are needed for models to work properly.
def user_directory_path(instance, filename):
return 'user_{0}/{1}'.format(instance.user.id, filename)
class MyModel(models.Model):
file_field1 = models.FileField()
file_field2 = models.FileField(upload_to='uploads/%Y/%m/%d/')
file_field3 = models.FileField(upload_to=user_directory_path)Create an issue at https://github.com/derekkwok/django-db-storage/issues