I am recently trying to make an aws S3 storage (I know there are a few libraries in there but I needed some customization). The storage works fine so far!
However, there are some implementation details on FileField and ImageField, in particular the function generate_filename https://github.com/django/django/blob/master/django/db/models/fields/files.py#L310 that is called before saving a model (and its file/image field). That code assumes the file uses standar file paths based on your current operative system. This creates quite some complications on S3 for example where all the paths to simulate folders uses a "/", so if you are in Windows and your file name is something like "hello/my/file.txt" it will overwrite your file name to be "hello\\my\\file.txt" which is something I don't want as I have explicitly created an upload_to callable to generate a very specific file name (and that it shouldn't be changed). Looking deeper it seems like the whole FileField implementation relies on a directory and file structure, which might not be always right. How easy would it be to add customization to this? Is your only option defining your own FileFilend and ImageField classes that override this method? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/35f921f4-9c22-40fa-bbea-ebfcb4c5d91f%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
