You just proved I was wrong. My memory failed me. This is good. This means
the current trunk is ok. :-)
Massimo
On Sunday, 10 March 2013 20:04:25 UTC-5, Alex wrote:
>
> I have to disagree, unless we're talking about something different... this
> was definitely standard behavior until recently.
> I have two older web2py versions which both return a stream. I'm talking
> about the retrieve method in dal.py, maybe you mean something different?
>
> web2py 1.99.2:
> # ## if file is on filesystem
> if path:
> pass
> elif self.uploadfolder:
> path = self.uploadfolder
> else:
> path = os.path.join(self.db._adapter.folder, '..',
> 'uploads')
> if self.uploadseparate:
> t = m.group('table')
> f = m.group('field')
> u = m.group('uuidkey')
> path = os.path.join(path,"%s.%s" % (t,f),u[:2])
> return (filename, open(os.path.join(path, name), 'rb'))
>
>
> web2py 2.1.1:
> else:
> # ## if file is on regular filesystem
> stream = open(pjoin(file_properties['path'], name), 'rb')
> return (filename, stream)
>
>
> in both versions a stream is returned for a file on the filesystem.
>
> On Monday, March 11, 2013 1:35:51 AM UTC+1, Massimo Di Pierro wrote:
>>
>> No. For uploads stored on filesystem it always returned (filename,
>> fullfilename). For other types of uploads it returned (filename, stream).
>>
>> We tried to change this and return always consistently (filename,
>> stream). There was only one trunk version that did that. It was reverted
>> because of caching concerns. The current trunk version is another
>> experiment. These are tests. This is not the standard behavior. I am glad
>> it now works as you expect but it not decided it is going to stay this way
>> until we clear all issues.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sunday, 10 March 2013 18:25:02 UTC-5, Alex wrote:
>>>
>>> I guess you meant to say it always returned a stream instead of the file
>>> name in your reply above (and not the other way around)?
>>>
>>> I just saw your recent commit and it works fine again, the retrieve
>>> method now returns a stream as excepted. thanks!
>>>
>>> Am Sonntag, 10. März 2013 23:40:39 UTC+1 schrieb Massimo Di Pierro:
>>>>
>>>> Can you check is the current trunk works for you? We are trying to
>>>> improve the APIs of retrieve.
>>>>
>>>> On Sunday, 10 March 2013 13:58:23 UTC-5, Alex wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm currently using web2py 2.1.1 and wanted to try 2.4.2 but I got a
>>>>> problem with retrieving uploaded files from the file system. I'm using
>>>>> the
>>>>> retrieve method of the upload field.
>>>>> The problem is in dal.py line 9265 where it returns the file path
>>>>> instead of the stream.
>>>>> stream = pjoin(file_properties['path'], name)
>>>>> previously this was
>>>>> stream = open(pjoin(file_properties['path'], name), 'rb')
>>>>>
>>>>> now my code does not work anymore. I assume the missing open call is a
>>>>> bug, right?
>>>>>
>>>>> Alex
>>>>>
>>>>>
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