Re: Proposal: extending the storage backend api

2010-09-10 Thread Stephan Jäkel
Another update on this proposal: I just wrote a patch to make the described idea possible and recycled the already existing ticket http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/10497 for that. You'll find a patch attached to the ticket. Stephan Jäkel wrote: Hi, this proposal is about extending the s

Re: Proposal: extending the storage backend api

2010-09-09 Thread Stephan Jäkel
I forgot to mention the ticket for the "stat" method: http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/10497 Stephan Jäkel wrote: FYI, there is a ticket in trac which recommends to add a "stat" method but I think this maybe would be hard to implement on backends like S3. Cheers, -- You received this mess

Proposal: extending the storage backend api

2010-09-09 Thread Stephan Jäkel
Hi, this proposal is about extending the storage backend api of Django. The storage backend has already many helpful methods to get information about stored files like: - name - size - full path (for some backends). I think it could be useful to have some more methods to get information abou