I have a project where I wish to upload an image with the Django auto generated class-based views, and it works on the admin side, but I don't know what I'm missing to make it work from an HTML page. I've searched the web with a little luck or not enough clarification.
So maybe someone can tell me what I'm missing. Here is my code:
settings.py
MEDIA_URL = '/media/'
MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(BASE_DIR), 'project/app/media_cdn')
models.py
from django.db import models
from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse
class Article(models.Model):
title = models.CharField(max_length = 200)
...
thumbnail = models.FileField(null = True, blank = True)
...
def __str__(self):
return self.title
def get_absolute_url(self):
return reverse('articles_detail', kwargs={'pk': self.pk})
class Meta:
ordering = ['-pk']
views.py
from django.shortcuts import render
from app.models import Article
from django.views.generic import *
from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse_lazy
from django.contrib.auth.mixins import LoginRequiredMixin
# Create your views here.
def index(request):
return render(request, 'index.html')
class ArticleList(ListView):
model = Article
class ArticleDetail(DetailView):
model = Article
class ArticleCreate(LoginRequiredMixin, CreateView):
model = Article
fields = ['title', 'description', 'abstract', 'thumbnail', 'author', 'category', 'publishDate']
class ArticleUpdate(LoginRequiredMixin, UpdateView):
model = Article
fields = ['title', ..., 'thumbnail', ...]
class ArticleDelete(LoginRequiredMixin, DeleteView):
model = Article
success_url = reverse_lazy('articles_list')
urls.py
from django.conf.urls import url
from django.contrib import admin
from django.conf import settings
from django.conf.urls.static import static
from app import views, auth
urlpatterns = [
url(r'^admin/',admin.site.urls),
...
url(r'^articles/(?P<pk>[0-9]+)/$', views.ArticleDetail.as_view(), name = 'articles_detail'),
url(r'^articles/create/$', views.ArticleCreate.as_view(), name = 'articles_create'),
url(r'^articles/update/(?P<pk>[0-9]+)/$', views.ArticleUpdate.as_view(), name = 'articles_update'),
url(r'^articles/delete/(?P<pk>[0-9]+)/$', views.ArticleDelete.as_view(), name = 'articles_delete'),
]
if settings.DEBUG:
urlpatterns += static(settings.MEDIA_URL, document_root = settings.MEDIA_ROOT)
article_form.html
{% extends 'layout.html' %}
{% block content %}
<form method="post" action="" enctype="multipart/form-data">
{% csrf_token %}
{{ form.as_p }}
<button type="submit">Submit</button>
</form>
{% endblock %}
As much as I was able to gather, I managed to follow all the steps but I still can't get the thumbnail to update when uploading from articles/create/ and articles/update/.../
Thanks in advance.
