Question

I am allowing users to upload images with chunks. What is the appropriate way to reference the file from the database without resaving the file with FileField? I’m saving as follows:

def handle_uploaded_file(f):
with open('some/file/name.txt', 'wb+') as destination:
    for chunk in f.chunks():
        destination.write(chunk)

Answer 1

You should write the chunks to a Django File object and save it to a model’s FileField.

Then that saved file will live in your MEDIA_ROOT directory, and you will be able to do mymodel.myfile.url to share that file’s public url if needed.