Andreas my supervisor has asked me to determine the feasibility of using
different frameworks for our web application. Django seems nice to work
with mainly because it is in Python and that gives us a lot. Will
different frameworks result in a huge difference in aspects such as data
upload? We are new to web development and at this stage we are doing
research, and this would be a nice example to show.
On Tuesday, 26 September 2017 00:37:58 UTC-7, Andréas Kühne wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> Yes that is realistic in the sense that it takes a couple of seconds to
> upload a 1GB file to localhost. It should take a small amount of time,
> because it is just copying the file (through django) to the directory you
> specified.
>
> However uploading a 1 GB file to a web server on the Internet isn't
> feasible. It would probably take to long to upload and the connection would
> time out - unless you do a bit of magic on the connections.
>
> So, my question to you is what are you trying to accomplish? What is the
> purpose of your test?
>
> Regards,
>
> Andréas
>
> 2017-09-25 22:42 GMT+02:00 Allan <allanei...@gmail.com <javascript:>>:
>
>> I've created a simple form for data upload. I'm testing it through
>> localhost and was wondering if this is realistic. Web development is a new
>> area for me so bare with me please if this is a laughable question. I
>> uploaded a 1GB file and it was uploaded and moved to a folder in my project
>> in a matter of a few seconds.
>>
>> def simple_upload(request):
>> if request.method =='POST' and request.FILES['myfile']:
>> myfile = request.FILES['myfile']
>> fs = FileSystemStorage()
>> filename = fs.save(myfile.name, myfile)
>> uploaded_file_url = fs.url(filename)
>> return render(request, 'simple_upload.html', {
>> 'uploaded_file_url': uploaded_file_url
>> })
>>
>> return render(request, 'simple_upload.html')
>>
>> {% load static %}
>>
>> {% block content %}
>> <form method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
>> {% csrf_token %}
>> <input type="file" name="myfile">
>> <button type="submit">Upload</button>
>> </form>
>>
>> {% if uploaded_file_url %}
>> <p>File uploaded at: <a href="{{ uploaded_file_url }}">{{
>> uploaded_file_url }}</a></p>
>> {% endif %}
>>
>> <p><a href="{% url 'dashboard' %}">Return to home</a></p>
>> {% endblock %}
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
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