How to Upload any kind of file in django 2 - django

Question

I'm New in Django 2. I was trying to upload a file in Django here is my code
View.py
def addBook(request):
checkName = AddBook.objects.filter(title=request.POST.get('title'))
if not checkName:
bookAdd = AddBook(
title=request.POST.get('title'),
slug=slugify(request.POST.get('title')),
description=request.POST.get('description'),
cover_image=request.FILES.get('cover_image'),
file=request.FILES.get('file'),
category=request.POST.get('category'),
created_by=request.user.id,
)
bookAdd.save()
messages.add_message(request, messages.INFO, 'Book Saved Successfully')
return HttpResponseRedirect(request.META.get('HTTP_REFERER'))
else:
messages.add_message(request, messages.INFO, 'Book Title Already Exists')
return HttpResponseRedirect(request.META.get('HTTP_REFERER'))
Update As per Comment
Here is my template code
bookSave.html
<form action="{% url 'addBook' %}" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
{% csrf_token %}
<div class="modal-body">
<div class="col-lg-12 col-md-12 col-sm-12 col-xs 12">
<div class="form-group ic-cmp-int">
<div class="form-ic-cmp">
<i class="notika-icon notika-edit"></i>
</div>
<div class="nk-int-st">
<input type="text" class="form-control input-sm" required="required" name="title"
Placeholder="Title">
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="modal-body">
<div class="col-lg-12 col-md-12 col-sm-12 col-xs-12">
<div class="form-group ic-cmp-int">
<div class="form-ic-cmp">
<i class="notika-icon notika-mail"></i>
</div>
<div class="nk-int-st">
<textarea class="form-control input-sm" required="required" name="description"
placeholder="Description"></textarea>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="modal-body">
<div class="col-lg-12 col-md-12 col-sm-12 col-xs-12">
<div class="form-group ic-cmp-int">
<div class="form-ic-cmp">
<i class="notika-icon notika-dollar"></i>
</div>
<div class="nk-int-st">
<input type="file" name="cover_image" required="required" class="form-control input-sm">
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="modal-body">
<div class="col-lg-12 col-md-12 col-sm-12 col-xs-12">
<div class="form-group ic-cmp-int">
<div class="form-ic-cmp">
<i class="notika-icon notika-house"></i>
</div>
<div class="nk-int-st">
<input type="file" name="file" required="required" class="form-control input-sm">
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="modal-body">
<div class="col-lg-12 col-md-12 col-sm-12 col-xs-12">
<div class="form-group ic-cmp-int">
<div class="form-ic-cmp">
<i class="notika-icon notika-next"></i>
</div>
<div class="nk-int-st">
<input type="text" name="category" required="required" class="form-control input-sm"
Placeholder="Category">
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="modal-footer">
<button class="btn btn-default">Save changes</button>
<button type="button" class="btn btn-default" data-dismiss="modal">Close</button>
</div>
</form>
I can save everything but I need to save the file path and save the file locally. I read their documentation but cannot help me out. Please help me to solve this problem

Answer 1

The FileField in your Model, besides the other fields, should look like this:
class AddBook(models.Model):
# file will be uploaded to MEDIA_ROOT/uploads
file = models.FileField(upload_to='uploads/')
# or...
# file will be saved to MEDIA_ROOT/uploads/2015/01/30
file = models.FileField(upload_to='uploads/%Y/%m/%d/')
In your settings file, you’ll need to define MEDIA_ROOT as the full path to a directory where you’d like Django to store uploaded files. (For performance, these files are not stored in the database.) Define MEDIA_URL as the base public URL of that directory. Make sure that this directory is writable by the Web server’s user account.
in settings.py you should set for example:
MEDIA_ROOT = '/home/foo/bar/yourproject/assets'
Also you might want to study and set static files storage in Django (besides the ‘static’ folder).
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.0/howto/static-files/#configuring-static-files
In Django you can get any file with the File Object like:
from django.core.files import File
# Open an existing file using Python's built-in open()
f = open('/path/to/mybookfile.pdf')
myfile = File(f)