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Generate short UUIDs and use them as paths for uploaded media files in Django.
django-uuid-upload-path generates short UUIDs to use as paths for uploaded media files in Django.
uuid_upload_path
directory into your PYTHONPATH
. If using pip, run
pip install django-uuid-upload-path
.Generate a short, URL-safe UUID as follows:
::
from uuid_upload_path import uuid
uuid() // -> "hCdLEjlQQJW25-sXB3T_Gw"
To upload media files to short UUID filenames, just set upload_to
to uuid_upload_path.upload_to
.
::
from uuid_upload_path import upload_to
class YourModel(models.Model):
file = models.FileField(
upload_to = upload_to,
)
Django tries to ensure that all your uploaded files are given unique names on the filesystem. It does this by checking if a file with the same name exists before saving a new one, and adding a suffix if the new file would otherwise conflict with the existing one.
If you're saving files to disk using the built-in django.core.files.storage.FileSystemStorage
, this isn't much of a problem. However, if you're using a cloud file storage, such as storages.backends.s3boto.S3BotoStorage
, this uniqueness check can have a noticeable effect on the performance of file uploads. Worse, the default configuration of S3BotoStorage
is to overwrite existing files with the same name when uploading a new file!
By generating a unique filename for each uploaded file, django-uuid-upload-path removes the need for a costly uniqueness check, and avoids accidentally overwriting existing files on remote cloud storages.
Downloads and bug tracking can be found at the main project website <http://github.com/etianen/django-uuid-upload-path>
_.
The django-uuid-upload-path project was developed by Dave Hall. You can get the
code from the django-uuid-upload-path project site <http://github.com/etianen/django-uuid-upload-path>
_.
Dave Hall is a web developer, based in Cambridge, UK. You can usually find him on the Internet in a number of different places:
Website <http://www.etianen.com/>
_Twitter <http://twitter.com/etianen>
_Google Profile <http://www.google.com/profiles/david.etianen>
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Generate short UUIDs and use them as paths for uploaded media files in Django.
We found that django-uuid-upload-path demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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