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Jibin
Jibin

Reputation: 3102

How to pass a file object to template in Django

I am reading a file in myView & passing it to myTemplate

myView

fp = open('D:/python1/format.pdf', 'rb')        
data = fp.read()             

response = HttpResponse(data, mimetype="application/pdf")
template = get_template('myTemplate.html')

variables = RequestContext(request, {'file':response})
output = template.render(variables)                
return HttpResponse(output)

myTemplate

<object id="pdf" height="100%" width="100%" type="application/pdf" data="{{file}}">

Check this link.They have done a similar thing with csv file

Note:
I have done this successfully for an image file in zope (using python handler to read file and Dtml to put the raw image data in 'src'). Check this link.

and I know that Django shouldn't serve static files.This is a special case.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2891

Answers (1)

DrTyrsa
DrTyrsa

Reputation: 31951

You can pass the data of the file as a string to the template as

fp = open('D:/python1/format.pdf', 'rb')        
data = fp.read()
variables = RequestContext(request, {'file': data})
output = template.render(variables)                
return HttpResponse(output)

Or you can serve it with web-server.

I don't think you can do something else. :-)

Upvotes: 1

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