Django Hybrid-FileField

A combination of Django's FileField and FilePathField.

Installation

Using pip:

pip install -e git+http://github.com/danieljb/django-hybrid-filefield.git#egg=hybrid_filefield

Example Usage

Usage of Hybrid-FileField in an image Model:

from django.db import models
from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _
from django.conf import settings

from hybrid_filefield.fields import FileSelectOrUpload

IMAGE_PATH          = getattr(settings, 'IMAGE_PATH', os.path.join(settings.MEDIA_ROOT, 'images'))
IMAGE_SEARCH_PATH   = getattr(settings, 'IMAGE_SEARCH_PATH', os.path.join(IMAGE_PATH, 'ftp_uploads'))
IMAGE_FILTER        = '.+\.jpg'

class ImageModel(models.Model):
    image_file = FileSelectOrUpload(
        verbose_name=_('Image File'),
        path=IMAGE_SEARCH_PATH, 
        upload_to=IMAGE_PATH, 
        match=IMAGE_FILTER,
        help_text=_( 
            'Select an image file which was uploaded to %(search_path)s on the server or upload an image via http.' % 
                {'search_path': os.path.relpath(os.path.realpath(IMAGE_SEARCH_PATH), settings.MEDIA_ROOT),}
        ),
    )

Parameters

FileSelectOrUpload.upload_to

Path where files will be stored when uploaded via FileField or selected in the FilePathField.

FileSelectOrUpload.path

Path to search for files matching FileSelectOrUpload.match, matching files will be listed in FilePathField.

FileSelectOrUpload.match

Pattern defining which files will be listed in FilePathField.

FileSelectOrUpload.copy_file

If True file selected in FilePathField will be copied to FileSelectOrUpload.upload_to directory instead of being moved.

Copyright

Django Hybrid-FileField is distributed under GNU General Public License. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with Django Hybrid-FileField.
If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

Copyright (c) 2011, Daniel J. Becker