Django: Uploading multiple files. List of files needed in cleaned_data['file']

Question

I followed the pattern of the docs, to upload several files with one forms.FileField:

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/topics/http/file-uploads/#u

Answer 1

I assume that you have:

class FileFieldForm(forms.Form):
     files = forms.FileField(widget=forms.ClearableFileInput(attrs={'multiple': True}))

and you are trying to get files using : cleaned_data['files'] and you are getting only 1 file instead of 2.

The Reason:

What is happening here is, When you try to do something like this

file in self.cleaned_data['files]:, 

thinking that, you can iterate over a list of uploadedFile objects and pass each to the handler function.

But cleaned_data['files'] is not a list for you, it's just ONE single instance of uploadedfile.

When you iterate over a file object, you're actually reading it. So what you pass eventually to the handler function is not the file object but its content (as a bytes string).

The solution

You need to get a list of files and then, perform something what you want on them as below.

files = request.FILES.getlist('files')

for f in files:
    ...  # Do something with each file considering f as file object