Saving image problem in view

Using Django Forms & APIs
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Firstly hope this is the correct Subchannel (this is view related). I’ll try to explain my issue and cut to the chase with the code, although I may need to expand my code submission to explain in better detail.

I’m working on an image object in a view, editing some metadata within it, then saving it. I am then accessing the image again with via it’s pk and assigning it to a new variable which is passed via context to the template. The image is displayed but instead of it being the ‘new image’ with changed metadata when i right-click save-as, it’s the ‘original’. But, when I open the ‘new image’ in a new window and save-as the data has changed.

So, saving image then accessing it again. All pretty straightforward. But the new_image isnt updating it’s changes in metadata until I open it in a new window…

image.save()
new_image = Uploaded_Image.objects.get(pk=image.pk) 
return render(request, "partials/test.html", {'image':image, 'new_image': new_image}

Then template

<img src="{{ new_image.image.url  }}" >
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Ok, i have solved this, although I’m unsure if this is the best way to go about this. I had to open the file and directly render it from it’s path.

            new_image = Uploaded_Image.objects.get(pk=image.pk)  
            image_url = new_image.image.url
            image_path = os.path.join(settings.BASE_DIR, image_url.strip('/'))
            with open(image_path, 'rb') as file:
                new_image = file.read()

#new_image passed in context.

I then had to write a file to do the Base64 encoding for it to render in template.