eweisner1973
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4 years ago Curious if we could extend existing functions to handle this use-case. Also, these aren't being used by the Files app, so what is the use-case for them? Some doc-comments could help clear it up.
Curious if we could extend existing functions to handle this use-case. Also, these aren't being used by the Files app, so what is the use-case for them? Some doc-comments could help clear it up.
The use case is pretty rare. Basically trying to programmatically mimic what happens when a file is uploaded via a Django admin form using a field type that supports upload_to such as models.ImageField. When those types of fields are used on a form, behind the scenes we get the file uploaded to the appropriate S3 server, and a public URL that never expires rather than a generated URL that does expire. In my case, I had a website scraper downloading images, uploading them, and using the URL data in new records.
The logic may not belong here as it doesn't strictly require or use the File model.
This adds two basic methods for programmatically handling files hosted via S3 that will be publicly available. One is an upload method, the other is a URL generation method.