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Bigdinrock
Bigdinrock

Reputation: 525

file upload with django

I am newbie working with django, I am trying to create a form that permits the user to upload a file. The code I used is pretty much the same as from the djangoproject tutorial but it didn't work. my code is as follows:

for views: 

from django import forms

from django.shortcuts import render_to_response

from django.http import HttpResponseRedirect


def upload_file(request):
    if request.method == 'POST':

        form = UploadFileForm(request.POST, request.FILES)
        if form.is_valid():
            handle_uploaded_file(request.FILES['file'])
            return HttpResponseRedirect('/')
    else:
        form = UploadFileForm()
    return render_to_response('upload_file.html', {'form': form})

def handle_uploaded_file(f):
    destination = open('home/dutzy/Desktop/mysite/name.txt', 'wb+')
    for chunk in f.chunks():
        destination.write(chunk)
    destination.close()

models:

from django.db import models

from django import forms

class UploadFileForm(forms.Form):
    title = forms.CharField(max_length=50)
    file  = forms.FileField()

and the template:upload_file.html 

<form enctype="multipart/form-data" method="post" action="/upload_file/">
    <table>
        <tr>
            <td>
                <b> {{ form.file.label_tag }}</b>  {{ form.file}}
            </td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td>
                <input type="hidden" value="title" name="title" id="title" />
                <input type="submit" value="Save" id="Save"/>
            </td>
        </tr>
     </table>
</form>

i am testing my code on the django development server. the error is:global name 'UploadFileForm' is not defined, altough i suspect there are also other problems. i have configured the urls.py as: (r'^upload/$', 'mysite.upload.views.upload_file')

Could someone please take a look at my code and point me in the right direction?

Thank you

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3690

Answers (3)

mif
mif

Reputation: 1121

Agree with Yuji's answer. I would also suggest to define UploadFileForm class in your view instead of the models. It belongs with the presentation logic, not the data/model.

Upvotes: 1

Yuji &#39;Tomita&#39; Tomita
Yuji &#39;Tomita&#39; Tomita

Reputation: 118528

The error is a simple python error. UploadFileForm is not defined

According to what you've pasted, you've only imported stuff from django.

You have to import your UploadFileForm from wherever it lives into your view function code, so add "from myproject.myapp.models import UploadFileForm"

To reproduce your error:

def global_name_error():
    UploadFileForm
global_name_error()
[out] NameError: global name 'UploadFileForm' is not defined

Upvotes: 1

Tom
Tom

Reputation: 215

Make sure that your form follows these rules http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.2/ref/forms/api/#binding-uploaded-files-to-a-form

Upvotes: 1

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