Thank you so much. I will give that go.
On Wednesday, January 17, 2018 at 4:48:24 PM UTC+1, Matemática A3K wrote: > > > > On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 11:53 AM, Tony <[email protected] <javascript:> > > wrote: > >> I would like to let users either upload a video file(to AWS S3) or >> provide an URL to a video, e.g. Youtube/Vimeo. >> >> >> I found a similar question for Rails: Rails: upload a file OR store a url >> <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13547724/rails-upload-a-file-or-store-a-url> >> >> >> >> <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13547724/rails-upload-a-file-or-store-a-url> >> >> But how do I do that in Django(1.11)? >> >> >> Should I create 2 separate models, or model inheritance with abstract >> model, let users choose what they want to do in the frontend, then display >> the appropriate form? >> >> class VideoModel(models.Model): >> title = models.CharField(max_length=200) >> post_by = models.OneToOneField(settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL) >> created = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True) >> modified = models.DateTimeField(auto_now=True) >> >> class Meta: >> abstract = True >> class VideoFile(VideoModel): >> video = models.FileField(upload_to='uploads/') >> class Videolink(VideoModel): >> URL = URLField(max_length=200) >> >> > >> Would it be better if there is only 1 model with both a FileField and >> URLField. >> > IMO, yes, indeed > >> They are both set to blank = true. Put a message on the page, saying >> either upload a file or provide a Youtube link. In the backend, check the >> request.POST whether one of these fields is filled in, if not, render the >> form again with an error message. >> > class VideoModel(models.Model): > title = models.CharField(max_length=200) > post_by = models.OneToOneField(settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL) > created = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True) > modified = models.DateTimeField(auto_now=True) video = > models.FileField(upload_to='uploads/', blank=True, null=True) > url = URLField(max_length=200, blank=True, null=True) > > def clean(self): > > super().clean() > > if not self.url and not self.video: > > raise(ValidationError({"url": "Both url and video can't be > null"}) > > def get_video_url(self): > > return(url if self.url else self.video.url) > > > This is a way of doing it. If you use a ModelForm, then it will show the > error message automatically. You can add some javascript for showing only > the one that was chosen. You should have for convenience a function or > method that return the url for the video independently of the source. > >> >> Which one is better to handle such situation? Or they are equally >> horrible? I couldn't think of a third option. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Django users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> <javascript:>. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-users. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/31186b81-e108-47f9-8594-a140dcad3097%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/31186b81-e108-47f9-8594-a140dcad3097%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/04d21929-59cb-4c18-b8ae-118cc92aaa4c%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
