Is this an oversight or a conscious decision? If I understand you, if one's filesystem allowed filenames greater than 512 characters, long-enough but still legal names will still be truncated, and thus thwart the ability to extract the original file name. That could be a nasty surprise.
P.S. As I understand it, it is a permanent filename. On Monday, July 20, 2015 at 8:47:36 AM UTC-4, Massimo Di Pierro wrote: > > Nowhere. We only state that Field(..., lenght=....) is a parameter. We do > not say that for "upload" fields this is also the length of the tmp > filename. > > On Monday, 20 July 2015 05:28:02 UTC-5, Scott Hunter wrote: >> >> Where is this spelled out in the documentation? I could not find it. >> >> - Scott >> >> On Monday, July 20, 2015 at 2:24:24 AM UTC-4, Massimo Di Pierro wrote: >>> >>> This is handled by web2py. The filenames are truncated according to the >>> size of the uploadfield. This defaults to 512. In new versions of windows >>> the make file length has been reduced so you have to do >>> >>> Field(name, 'upload', size=200) >>> >>> and all filenames will be limited to 200 bytes. >>> >>> On Sunday, 19 July 2015 21:06:42 UTC-5, Scott Hunter wrote: >>>> >>>> This is not only an issue with Windows; any filesystem with a filename >>>> limit (however big) can hit this problem. As this is all being handled by >>>> web2py, and the user is selecting the file to upload, where would this >>>> "logic" go, and why isn't web2py handling it? >>>> >>>> - Scott >>>> >>>> On Saturday, March 16, 2013 at 1:04:28 PM UTC-4, Niphlod wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I was wrong. the first part of the "hash" is a uuid, the second is a >>>>> base16 encoding of the original filename. >>>>> >>>>> Seems that you need some logic to cut down long files if you plan to >>>>> host on Windows. >>>>> >>>>> http://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/07?search=uploads#Storing-the-original-filename >>>>> >>>>> <http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fweb2py.com%2Fbooks%2Fdefault%2Fchapter%2F29%2F07%3Fsearch%3Duploads%23Storing-the-original-filename&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNHoAJ_7v4pFTQfLJ7w7itNYEBhoPw> >>>>> >>>> -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
