Simply save file to folder in Django

Question

I have a piece of code which gets a file from a form via POST.

file = request.FILES[\'f\']

What would be the simplest way of saving this fi

Answer 1

Using default_storage is better than FileSystemStorage.

You can save file to MEDIA_ROOT with FileSystemStorage but when you change DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE backend in the future this may not work anymore.

If you use default_storage, in the future if you want to use aws, azure etc as file store with multiple Django worker your code will work without any change.

default_storage usage example:

from django.core.files.storage import default_storage

#  Saving POST'ed file to storage
file = request.FILES['myfile']
file_name = default_storage.save(file.name, file)

#  Reading file from storage
file = default_storage.open(file_name)
file_url = default_storage.url(file_name)