django cutom image name on upload - django

Question

I need create a image upload with django, the problem is, django always saving in a global project(called linkdump) folder, I want save it on the project folder(linktracker).
setting.py:
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
model:
class Link(models.Model):
link_description = models.CharField(max_length=200)
link_url = models.CharField(max_length=200)
link_image = models.ImageField(upload_to= './static/')
def __str__(self):
return self.link_description
class Admin:
pass
now in the view:
<img src="{% static link.link_image %}" alt="{{ link.link_description }}">
it returns
http://127.0.0.1:8000/static/static/o-BLUE-LIGHT-SLEEP-facebook.jpg
and the upload is in the project folder(linkdump), not inside the app.

Answer 1

You can specify a function to return a custom path for the ImageField:
def get_upload_path(instance, filename):
return 'your/custom/path/here'
class Link(models.Model):
. . .
link_image = models.ImageField(upload_to=get_upload_path)
Now you can use information from the model instance to build up the path to upload to.
Additionally, you don't want to use the {% static %} template tag to specify the path to the image. You would just use the .url property of the field:
<img src="{{ link.link_image.url }}" alt="{{ link.link_description }}" />