You can do
row.update(avatar=db.tablename.avatar.store(request.post_vars['upload_field'
]))
by why bypess form.process()? it does it for you.
On Thursday, 3 January 2013 15:57:24 UTC-6, Wonton wrote:
>
> Hello!
>
> I'm trying to implement uploading user's avatar. I've tried to follow the
> image blog example from the book and some of the posts related to this
> issue in this forum and I'm still a bit confused and I don't know if I
> could do certain things or how to do them.
>
> What I would like to achieve is this:
>
> -Upload the avatar and store it in the file system. The link to the file
> will be stored in the database. As far as I know this is possible with
> Field('avatar', 'upload').
> But, my first doubt: could I store the image file with a custom name, for
> example <auth_user.username>.jpg? I see that the file has a strange name
> when it's stored.
>
> -I would like the image to be public, anyone could see that image in any
> browser through its link.
> But, my second doubt: the content of the avatar field in my database is a
> File, and when I go to that link I see the content of the file in the URL
> and don't see the image.
>
> Finally, my last doubt, in my web service I access the image data through
> request.post_vars. If I print this data I get something like this:
> <Storage {'upload_field': FieldStorage('upload_field', 'myphoto_1.jpg',
> '\xff\xd8\
> ... ... ...\x04\xd9')}>
> I guess I have to store the image in the database with this:
> row.update(avatar=request.post_vars['upload_field'])
> Am I right?
>
>
> Thank you very much!
>
>
>
>
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