How to Upload any kind of file in django 2

Question

I'm New in Django 2. I was trying to upload a file in Django here is my code

View.py

def addBook(request):
    checkName = AddBook.objects.filter(title=request.POST.get('title'))
    if not checkName:
        bookAdd = AddBook(
            title=request.POST.get('title'),
            slug=slugify(request.POST.get('title')),
            description=request.POST.get('description'),
            cover_image=request.FILES.get('cover_image'),
            file=request.FILES.get('file'),
            category=request.POST.get('category'),
            created_by=request.user.id,
        )
        bookAdd.save()
        messages.add_message(request, messages.INFO, 'Book Saved Successfully')
        return HttpResponseRedirect(request.META.get('HTTP_REFERER'))
    else:
        messages.add_message(request, messages.INFO, 'Book Title Already Exists')
        return HttpResponseRedirect(request.META.get('HTTP_REFERER'))

Update As per Comment

Here is my template code bookSave.html


                    {% csrf_token %}

I can save everything but I need to save the file path and save the file locally. I read their documentation but cannot help me out. Please help me to solve this problem

Zollie · Accepted Answer

The FileField in your Model, besides the other fields, should look like this:

class AddBook(models.Model):
    # file will be uploaded to MEDIA_ROOT/uploads
    file = models.FileField(upload_to='uploads/')
    # or...
    # file will be saved to MEDIA_ROOT/uploads/2015/01/30
    file = models.FileField(upload_to='uploads/%Y/%m/%d/')

In your settings file, you’ll need to define MEDIA_ROOT as the full path to a directory where you’d like Django to store uploaded files. (For performance, these files are not stored in the database.) Define MEDIA_URL as the base public URL of that directory. Make sure that this directory is writable by the Web server’s user account.

in settings.py you should set for example:

MEDIA_ROOT = '/home/foo/bar/yourproject/assets'

Also you might want to study and set static files storage in Django (besides the ‘static’ folder).

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.0/howto/static-files/#configuring-static-files

In Django you can get any file with the File Object like:

from django.core.files import File

# Open an existing file using Python's built-in open()
f = open('/path/to/mybookfile.pdf')
myfile = File(f)

How to Upload any kind of file in django 2

View.py

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