Will this work on AppEngine ? Since there is no filesystem The code for manual uploads is :
stream = open(filename,'rb') Will this not give error since it will not be able to find the file ? On Monday, June 18, 2012 6:52:02 PM UTC+5:30, Anthony wrote: > > and the my show_image function is : >> >> def show_image(): >> return response.download(request,dal_db) >> > > That's the problem -- response.download() calls dal.Field.retrieve(), > which assumes the filename is encoded via base64.b16encode (i.e., it > assumes the file was stored using dal.Field.store(), which encodes the > filename). Instead of manually creating the filename, you could use this > procedure: http://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/6#Manual-uploads. > Just make the filename exactly what you want the downloaded filename to be > (including the extension), and do the insert into the upload field -- it > should automatically create the encoded name, store the name in the upload > field, and store the image in the blob field. In this case, the image > should be a file stream, and I think fetch will return a string, so you > might need to do: > > import cStringIO > profile_image = cStringIO.StringIO(result.content) > > Anthony >
