On Monday, March 13, 2017 at 12:26:51 PM UTC-7, Dave S wrote:
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> On Monday, March 13, 2017 at 12:10:32 PM UTC-7, Mika Sjöman wrote:
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>> Hi and thanks :)
>>
>> Ill try that later. But I need to keep the image outside of the db (not
>> in a blob field), and only keep a reference to the location of the image on
>> the disk. I am going to run a python script on the image I am uploading to
>> do OCR analysis triggered by the Scheduler, so I need the image on the
>> disk. How can I move the image to somewhere on the disk instead of saving
>> it in the db?
>>
>> Cheers
>>
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> We may need to know more about your React Native tool.
>
If it is putting it in a DB that you know how to talk to, you should be
able to extract it and stream it into a file local to the server. The
web2py download function (applications/welcome/controllers/default.py)
differs only in making the stream go to the requester.
/dps
> If you were using the Web2Py upload support, it would (unless told
> otherwise) end up in a file, and whether you used defaults or specified a
> location you'd know where that file was. It might help to look at the
> network traffic for the uploads, and see what URL the post is using. (The
> browser's DevTools console should have a Network tab. You can get to the
> console via right-click->inspect element on the page you're using.)
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> I've had the briefest intro to React, so I don't know much about your
> component.
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> Is this a mobile app, BTW?
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> /dps
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>> On Monday, March 13, 2017 at 5:42:07 PM UTC+1, Leonel Câmara wrote:
>>>
>>> Something like this should work (I haven't tested it).
>>>
>>> # Model
>>> db.define_table('my_uploads',
>>> Field('upload_field', 'upload')
>>> )
>>>
>>>
>>> # Controller
>>> def upload():
>>> """ Store the upload and return an URL to see the new file """
>>> stored_name = db.my_uploads.upload_field.store(request.vars['file[]'
>>> ]) # Note that Field.store works fine with cgi.FieldStorage
>>> db.my_uploads.insert(upload_field=stored_name)
>>> return URL('default', 'download', args=stored_name, scheme=True,
>>> host=True)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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