Uploading Files with Django

The samples demonstrate how to upload files with Django.

Basic Steps

Create a new Django project django-admin startproject project.
Create an application python manage.py startapp application.

Create a folder templates under project root. Declare the directory [os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'templates')] in settings.py.

TEMPLATES = [
    {
        'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
        'DIRS': [os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'templates')],
        'APP_DIRS': True,
        'OPTIONS': {
            'context_processors': [
                'django.template.context_processors.debug',
                'django.template.context_processors.request',
                'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',
                'django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages',
            ],
        },
    },
]

Create a basic HTML page index.htm under templates.
If you have static resources, such as CSS files, JavaScript files, image files and so on, declare the static resources path in settings.py.
```
STATICFILES_DIRS = (
    os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "Resources"),
)
```

Map URLs in urls.py

urlpatterns = [
    url(r'^$', views.home, name="home"),
    url(r'^upload/', views.upload, name="upload"),
]

And then create corresponding functions in views.py

def home(request):
    return render(request, 'index.htm', {'what':'DWT File Upload with Django'})

def upload(request):
    if request.method == 'POST':
        handle_uploaded_file(request.FILES['RemoteFile'], str(request.FILES['RemoteFile']))
        return HttpResponse("Successful")

    return HttpResponse("Failed")

def handle_uploaded_file(file, filename):
    if not os.path.exists('upload/'):
        os.mkdir('upload/')

    with open('upload/' + filename, 'wb+') as destination:
        for chunk in file.chunks():
            destination.write(chunk)

Add csrf token to Web client. For example:

<form action="{{ request.build_absolute_uri }}upload/" method="POST" enctype="multipart/form-data">
       {% csrf_token %}
       <input type="file" name="file"/>
       <br />
       <input type="submit" value="Upload File" />
     </form>

If you don't want to use csrf token, you just need to comment out 'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware' in settings.py.

Samples

Uploading files with form: form-upload
Uploading image files with Dynamic Web TWAIN: dwt-upload

Blog

Uploading Files with Django

dynamsoft-dwt/dwt-django-file-upload

Uploading Files with Django

Basic Steps

Samples

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