Manually trigger image save method in Django model - django

Question

I have a Django model with a customized image field. The image field creates some thumbnail sizes on upload. Code may look like this:
from django.db import models
from utils import CustomImageField
class Photo(models.Model):
image = CustomImageField()
Now I modify the original image, let's say I rotate it. And now I want to trigger the save method of my image field again, in order to overwrite the thumbnails and create rotated versions. So, I don't need to rotate the thumbnails elsewhere in my code (DRY).
Any thoughts? Something along those lines - but how exactly?
p = Photo.objects.get(pk=1)
p.image.save(...)
I have full control over the CustomImageField widget. The save() method is defined as:
def save(self, name, path, save=True):
Question is, what do I use for the methods parameters?

Answer 1

This question looks like a duplicate of Programmatically saving image to Django ImageField
The parameters of the ImageField.save() method are documented for FileField.save() (of which ImageField is a subclass):
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.9/ref/models/fields/#django.db.models.fields.files.FieldFile.save
Takes two required arguments: name which is the name of the file, and
content which is an object containing the file’s contents. The
optional save argument controls whether or not the model instance is
saved after the file associated with this field has been altered.
Defaults to True.
Here is what is working for us:
class CustomImage(models.Model):
image = models.ImageField(upload_to=get_file_path, max_length=500)
orig_name = models.TextField()
This is the method that adds an image file to the ImageField from an http resource:
from django.core.files.base import ContentFile
def download_photo(amazon_id, url):
img_data = requests.get(url)
img = CustomImage(orig_name=img_data.url)
img.image.save(slugify(img.orig_name), ContentFile(img_data.content), save=True)
It also works without ContentFile:
new_img = File(open(different_obj.image.path), 'r')
img.image.save(different_obj.image.url, new_img, save=True)
See also:
- https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.9/topics/files/
- https://djangosnippets.org/snippets/2587/

Answer 2

An option is dirty field checking, either manually (see this SO question) or using a pypi package
Alternatively, if you want to conserve memory, the resizing can be triggered from the field's property setter (assuming you inherit from FileField
class CustomImageField(FileField):
def _set_file(self, file):
has_file_changed = file != self._file
super(CustomImageField, self)._set_file(file)
if has_file_changed:
self.handle_resizing_etc()
# need to redeclare property so it points to the right _set_file
file = property(FileField._get_file, _set_file, FileField._del_file)
disclaimer: I haven't used this approach in production code and I haven't written a proof of concept before posting this answer, so it might not work as desired