Locating file path from a Django object

Question

I have a Django app which, submitting a package, should return values that are inside it.. Submitted the form to a view called "insert":

request.FILES['file']

returns the file objects, but it is of kind < InMemoryUploadedFile>. What i need is a way to get the absolute path of the uploaded file, so that i can feed it to a method that will return the values needed

Anyone know how i can accomplish this?

Thanks

score 14 · Accepted Answer · answered May 02 '10 at 14:40

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Surely the name "InMemory" is a clue that the file exists in memory only, so doesn't have a path?

answered May 02 '10 at 14:40

Daniel Roseman

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isn't there a way i can access the file although it's in memory? – PirosB3 May 02 '10 at 15:26
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I don't understand your question. You have the file object already. – Daniel Roseman May 02 '10 at 16:52
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url = settings.MEDIA_URL + < upload_to > + request.FILES['file'].name replace 'upload_to' with absolute path define in models.py. – Shekhar Singh Choudhary Jul 10 '19 at 15:32

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 16 '21 at 10:45

Daniel Roseman is correct for the context. But if you already created/inserted the object into the database using .create(...) or obj.save(). The path of the image can be retrieved by using obj.<field_name>.name. Example:

Suppose you have a model with an image field.

my_image = models.ImageFiled(upload_to='my_upload_dir')

so,

obj = ImageModel.objects.create(image=request.FILES['image']) # let's insert it to db
image_path = obj.image.name

# will return 
'my_upload_dir/myimagename.jpg'

Locating file path from a Django object

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