[Patch] Add get_FOO_basename() for FileFields

[Herbert Poul <herbert.poul@…>]

It is currently only possible to retrieve absolute pathname or URL of an uploaded file, but not it's basename..(ie. bare filename without any path) - imho this is a very common need.. and i checked dozend of times before believing that it's not already there (i hope i didn't miss it though ;) )

this patch adds a get_FOO_basename() which looks exactly like the existing get_FOO_url() and get_FOO_filename() methods .. and returns only the bare filename.

[Herbert Poul <herbert.poul@…>]

simple patch for latest svn trunk

[Chris Beaven]

Simple and useful.

[Jacob]

This is just sugar for os.path.basename(obj.get_FOO_filename()), and so it's a bit too feature-creepy for me. Just use os.path (or, better yet, a path module like Unipath).

[Herbert Poul <herbert.poul@…>]

imho... if you have a model with a fileupload .. it makes most sense to display the filename in a template..
you will never need the full path or path relative to MEDIA_ROOT ..

so .. i think basename is more useful than the current 'filename' .. because if i ever need 'filename' it's in a view where i can use python code like os.path .. while in a template where i want to output a file's name i need the basename..

of course.. i could simply write a custom method for my model or a template filter.. but i think outputting the name of an uploaded file is somewhat the basic functionality for a fileupload ?

it would be nice if you could rethink this.. it's just 2 lines of code.. but anyway .. maybe i'm missing some important point here.. so i leave the ticket closed ..

[Chris Beaven]

Herbert, want to bring this up in the Django developers group?