Unable to save fileattachment into Django Model FileField

Question

I am currently integrating exchange server email to my application. I am able to retrieve attachments from my emails using exchangelib. I am trying to save the attachments into my Django model filefield. However, it is not working with different errors based on different solutions I tried. Any help is appreciated. Thank you. Below are some of my code:

models.py

class Attachments(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField(max_length=255)
    attachment = models.FileField(upload_to="attachments/")

views.py

for attachment in item.attachments:
        if isinstance(attachment, FileAttachment):
            attachmentlist.append(attachment.name)
            saveattachments = Attachments(
                name=attachment.name,
                attachment=(attachment.content)
                )
            saveattachments.save()

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 21 '20 at 09:16

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Please look an following snippet and try to do same in you code

from django.core.files.base import ContentFile
...
saveattachments = Attachments(name=attachment.name)
saveattachments.attachment.save(attachment.name, ContentFile(attachment.content))
saveattachments.save()

answered Jan 21 '20 at 09:16

LinnTroll

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It worked! May I know what is the contentfile doing in this case? Thank you so much for the help! – Ang Yang Cheng Jan 21 '20 at 09:19
@AngYangCheng in this case `ContentFile` helps convert string `attachment.content` to file-like object, required by `save` method – LinnTroll Jan 21 '20 at 09:24

Unable to save fileattachment into Django Model FileField

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