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selvakumar
selvakumar

Reputation: 652

Validating Upload file in django

Here I,m using Django-REST framework for file upload, I'm not using a model layer in Django. So I am using default_storage for the uploaded file to save. My question here is how would I validate the files. Uploaded file should not exixts 10mb.Thanks in Advance. 

class imageapi(APIView):
    def post(self, request):

        if request.method == 'POST' and request.FILES['file']:
            try:

                form = UploadFileForm(request.POST, request.FILES)
                #save_path = os.path.join(settings.MEDIA_ROOT, 'uploads', request.FILES['file'])

                save_path = str(settings.MEDIA_ROOT)+ '/uploads/'+str(request.FILES['file'])
                path = default_storage.save(str(save_path), request.FILES['file'])
                return Response({default_storage.path(path)})
            except Exception as ex:
                return Response({"DATA": str(ex)})

Upvotes: 1

Views: 329

Answers (2)

Saad Aleem
Saad Aleem

Reputation: 1745

Multiple answers here on stackoverflow and the official docs suggest handling this on your webserver.

If using nginx, you can limit the filesize by using the client_max_body_size in the http block:

http {
    ...
    client_max_body_size 10M;
}

Upvotes: 0

xyres
xyres

Reputation: 21744

1. The django way:

You can check the size of the file in your form like this: field_name.size. This will return the size in bytes.

2. The server way:

You can configure your frontend server (Nginx, or Apacher, or whatever you're using) not to accept files more than 10 mb. This approach is better and safer.

Upvotes: 1

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