Opened 17 years ago

Closed 16 years ago

#6635 closed (invalid)

Unable to save model with ImageField/FileField on Windows

Reported by: anonymous Owned by: nobody
Component: Database layer (models, ORM) Version: dev
Severity: Keywords: filefield windows
Cc: Triage Stage: Unreviewed
Has patch: yes Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no

Description

Given the model, on Windows:

class StaffMember(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField(max_length=100, unique=True)
    photo = models.ImageField(upload_to="img/staff/", blank=True)
    #...

A validation error is raised whenever attempting to save from within the Django Admin interface. I found ticket #2923 and the issue seemed similar so I ran some tests on the code in django/db/models/fields/init.py. In the function "isWithinMediaRoot" "field_data" has a forward slash appended to the start of the path. On Windows "os.path.join" only returns the path after that leading forward slash resulting in an incorrect absolute path and a ValidationError. If you strip out the leading forward slash the absolute path is correctly determined.

Example (Python 2.5):

>>> root = 'F:\\root\\' # slash orientation doesn't matter here as far as os.path.join is concerned.
>>> path = '/path/to/file.txt'
>>> os.path.join(root, path)
'/path/to/file.txt'
>>> path = 'path/to/file.txt'
>>> os.path.join(root, path)
'F:\\root\\path/to/file.txt'

Attachments (1)

6635.patch (713 bytes ) - added by justin.driscoll@… 17 years ago.
Strip forward slash from "field_data" in "isWithinMediaRoot".

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Change History (3)

by justin.driscoll@…, 17 years ago

Attachment: 6635.patch added

Strip forward slash from "field_data" in "isWithinMediaRoot".

comment:1 by justin.driscoll@…, 17 years ago

Didn't mean to submit ticket anonymously.

in reply to:  description comment:2 by Marc Fargas, 16 years ago

Resolution: invalid
Status: newclosed

Replying to anonymous:

class StaffMember(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField(max_length=100, unique=True)
    photo = models.ImageField(upload_to="img/staff/", blank=True)
    #...

In the function "isWithinMediaRoot" "field_data" has a forward slash appended to the start of the path.

The example Model you gave does not meet this condition (no forward slash at the begining)

Anyway, documentation says (crearly enough I think) that the upload_to field is under settings.MEDIA_ROOT, which means that it has to be *relative* to settings.MEDIA_ROOT, hence *not* starting with "/".

I understand this as an invalid ticket.

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