save url in imagefield and read full url

Using Django Forms & APIs
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hi this is image filed in my model :
profile_picture = models.ImageField(
upload_to=‘users/profile_pictures’, null=True, blank=True)

when my users login with social networks i save image url in image filed like this : http://example.com/image.png

but when i want to see this image url in my api show me like this localhost:/8000/media/http://…

i want to check if http in my image field give me full and correct url or user upload a picture give me the media url like localhost:8000/media/userimage.png

how can do this ?

this is mt serializer but not work :

def get_profile_picture(self, obj):
    profile_picture = obj.profile_picture
    if profile_picture and ('http://', 'https://') in  profile_picture:
        return return profile_picture
    elif profile_picture:
        # If it's a local path, prepend it with the media URL
        return self.context['request'].build_absolute_uri(profile_picture.url)
    else:
        return None
2

I’m not sure I understand what the source and destinations are of these images you’re referring to here.

Are you saying that the image being referenced here is located on a different server and accessed through a non-local URL? (And that you’re looking to store that reference url?)

Or are you saying that you’re going to copy the image from the original source to your server?

3

in my project users can only register and login with social network like google , facebook .
this social network after login give me a link of user profile picture and i dont download and save this picture in local . i save only the url in image field and dont create extera url field .

also user can upload image after login and i save only media url like /media/sample.png

now i need access both url .

but django give me social profile link like this : localhost:8000/media/https://google./user.png

how can access and tell django i just need my url and dont change to media url for local .

4

If the image is not local - if you’re going to use the image from the url of the external resource, then do not store that in an image field. That reference url should be stored in a UrlField. (You don’t actually have an image.)

Your code then needs to determine which field to use in the template. (You could create a model method to check for a local image and choose the appropriate field to render.)

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thanks for your help .
i saw my database and image field save my social url correct . like(https://example.com/user.png)
I was looking for a way not to add an extra field to my model and to use one field for two purposes (as I wrote in the code above).
If there is no way, I have to save the images or not use them at aاl.

6

Add the extra field.

Don’t try to make Django fit a bad design. Fix the code.

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