Django Python uploading a `FileField` to a specific folder

Using Django
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How can I use the django FileField to upload the file to the specified folder directly without going through the admin panel or using the form for normal user?

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The Django FileField itself doesn’t upload anything. It’s a reference to a file accessible to the server (uploaded or otherwise). Other processes that put files on the server can create FileFields so that Django has a way of working with them.

What, precisely, are you trying to accomplish?

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I need to programmatically push each file from the local file system into a Django model.

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You’ve got a couple different choices:

  • Write a script (Python, bash, whatever) to post each file to an appropriate view.

  • Copy the files to the server, then write a management command to “import” (and I’m using that term loosely) those files into your Django app.

There are probably other options, but all the ones I can think of are just basic variations on one of these two.

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But It takes time to do that!!

Can I use the following coding?

class DemoMCall(models.Model):
rid = models.PositiveBigIntegerField(primary_key=True)
info_agent = models.CharField(max_length=200, blank=True, null=True)
audio_file = models.FileField( upload_to = user_directory_path )

def user_directory_path(instance):
   # file will be uploaded to MEDIA_ROOT
   return 'rec{0}_{1}'.format(instance.DemoMCall.rid, instance.DemoMCall.info_agent)
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True. So you need to decide which is going to be more time / cost effective. Write the script to import the files, or have someone manually enter them.

What do you expect that code to do for you?
(Hint: It’s not going to do anything to get the information about the files into the file fields in the instances of your model.)

You yourself wrote:

So you’ve got the idea. You need to programmatically push each file - you’ve got to write something that does that. It’s a “push” from the client, not a “pull” from the server.