On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 4:04 PM, Vincent Foley <vfo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I want to be able to add files inside a model to test that model.
> However, I'm unable to find in the documentation any mention on how to
> do so. I asked on IRC and somebody suggested the following:
>
> from django.core.files import File
> from myproject.myapp.models import MyModel
> fd = open('/path/to/file')
> f = File(fd)
> obj = MyModel.objects.create(file_field=f)
> f.close()
> fd.close()
>
>
> However, when I try to access obj, I get the following exception:
> SuspiciousOperation: Attempted access to '/path/to/file' denied.
>
> Is it how one is supposed to "attach" file into a model? If so, what
> could be causing my problem?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Vincent
>
> >
>
If the file isn't already relative to your MEDIA_ROOT you need to do:
m = MyModel()
m.file_field.save('new_file_name', open('/path/to/file').read()).
Alex
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