It seems part of my error was in using the "/" before the "uploads/"
This generates the correct path...
os.path.join(request.folder,'uploads/')
this does not...
os.path.join(request.folder,'/uploads/')
that said however. They each place the uploaded file into a root level
uploads directory.
On Saturday, March 21, 2015 at 3:53:29 PM UTC-5, pumplerod wrote:
>
> Well, I found the images. they are in the parent directory of
> applications. meaning the root web2py directory. I'm not sure why. is
> seems as though the os.path.join() is not actually building the correct
> path. Perhaps request.folder() is not being called correctly?
>
>
>
> On Saturday, March 21, 2015 at 3:07:10 PM UTC-5, Massimo Di Pierro wrote:
>>
>> I am confused too. Given your form, it should go on the filesystem. You
>> use a SQLFORM.factory, not a SQLFORM therefore there is no DB IO. Since you
>> can download it it means you have the filename, you can try search for it.
>> Perhaps the 'upload/' instead of 'upload' is creating a problem?
>>
>> On Saturday, 21 March 2015 00:30:44 UTC-5, pumplerod wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> I've just gotten uploading an image file with SQLFORM.factory to work
>>> (thanks to the posts here in this forum), but I have to admit I'm totally
>>> confused.
>>>
>>> I specified the uploads directory in which to store the image
>>>
>>> SQLFORM.factory(db.auth_user,db.brands, Field('brand_logo', 'upload',
>>> uploadfolder=os.path.join(request.folder, 'uploads/')))
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> The upload works, when I check the database, and select the file link,
>>> the image file downloads. However, I can't find it anywhere in the
>>> framework. There's nothing in the uploads directory. So is the image
>>> being stored in the SQLite database?
>>>
>>>
>>>
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