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django-s3sign
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s3 sign view for django. Facilitates file uploads to AWS S3.
$ pip install django-s3sign
Add s3sign to INSTALLED_APPS. Subclass s3sign.views.SignS3View
and override as needed.
Attributes you can override (and their default values):
name_field = 's3_object_name'
type_field = 's3_object_type'
expiration_time = 10
default_extension = '.obj'
root = ''
path_string = (
"{root}{now.year:04d}/{now.month:02d}/"
"{now.day:02d}/{basename}{extension}")
Methods you can override:
get_aws_access_key(self)get_aws_secret_key(self)get_bucket(self)get_mimetype(self, request)extension_from_mimetype(self, mime_type)now() # useful for unit testsnow_time() # useful for unit testsbasename()get_object_name(self, extension)Most of those should be clear. Read the source if in doubt.
Eg to use a different root path:
from s3sign.views import SignS3View
...
class MySignS3View(LoggedInView, SignS3View):
root = 'uploads/'
With a different S3 bucket:
class MySignS3View(LoggedInView, SignS3View):
def get_bucket(self):
return settings.DIFFERENT_BUCKET_NAME
Keeping the uploaded filename instead of doing a random one and whitelisted extension:
class MySignS3View(LoggedInView, SignS3View):
def basename(self, request):
filename = request.GET[self.get_name_field()]
return os.path.basename(filename)
def extension(self, request):
filename = request.GET[self.get_name_field()]
return os.path.splitext(filename)[1]
The required javascript is also included, so you can include it in your page with:
{% load static %}
<script src="{% static 's3sign/js/s3upload.js' %}"></script>
Your form would then somewhere have a bit like:
<form method="post">
<p id="status">
<strong>Please select a file</strong>
</p>
<input type="hidden" name="s3_url" id="uploaded-url" />
<input type="file" id="file" onchange="s3_upload();"/>
</form>
And
<script>
function s3_upload() {
const s3upload = new S3Upload({
file_dom_el: null, // Optional, and overrides file_dom_selector
// when present.
file_dom_selector: '#file',
s3_sign_put_url: '/sign_s3/', // change this if you route differently
s3_object_name: $('#file')[0].value,
onProgress: function(percent, message) {
$('#status').text('Upload progress: ' + percent + '% ' + message);
},
onFinishS3Put: function(url) {
$('#uploaded-url').val(url);
},
onError: function(status) {
$('#status').text('Upload error: ' + status);
}
});
}
</script>
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Django view for AWS S3 signing
We found that django-s3sign demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 3 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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