Hello, I'd like to be able to generate images dynamically for a Django-based website, and I'm wondering how best to go about it.
The idea is to do certain things to existing images, such as superimpose them on a background. The set of base images will be more-or-less static; it's just the operation performed on it which might change, so I don't really want to create an image model and have to instantiate it for each image. Rather I'd like to be able to simply put them in a directory, so I can make a request for 'imagename-operation.png', and have my application check to see if it exists in a cache, and if not, look for 'imagename.png' in the base images directory and apply the given operation to it. I'm fine with the image operations, but I can't decide where I should be doing this work. I'm tempted to do it all in a view, so 'imagename' and 'operation' are parsed from the request name and passed to the appropriate function, which returns the image. Doing it in the view however doesn't really feel right, and I wondered if perhaps I would be better with some custom middleware, or something else entirely. Does anybody have any advice? Thanks, Nye --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
