Re: Get datetime now, not at server initialisation

Hi,

On Oct/27/2020, Clive Bruton wrote:

> I have a function that uses the current date to set up a file path for
> uploaded images:
>
> ********************
>
> def upload_path():

[...]

> class Image(models.Model):
> item = models.ForeignKey(Item, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
> #file = ImageField(_('image'), upload_to='images')
> file = ImageField(_('image'), upload_to=upload_path())


> The problem is that when the Image class calls 'upload_path' the
> datetime portion of this is always the runserver initialisation time,
> rather than the time when 'upload_path' is called/used.
>
> How to fix this?

For what I remeber (I use FileField usually but this is noto relevant I
hope) you should do:

def upload_path(instance, filename):
# you have access to the instance (object model Image in your case)
# and the filename that the user used to upload it
# and this is executed on the upload time
return your_new_file_name

In the model:
file = ImageField(_('image'), upload_to=upload_path)

note that upload_path is a callable: it gets called on the upload time.
In your code it was called on initialization time.

Some time ago I had a similar code that caused a bug: in a ListView the
"queryset = " is executed on startup time. For a dynamic one I should
have used get_queryset() method.

--
Carles Pina i Estany
https://carles.pina.cat

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