Question

I’ve been going around in circles for hours with this.
I have a UserProfile model with profile_pic ImageField. I saved the user photo and now I want to display it, but nothing works. I went through docs, SO, google, with no result.
I uploaded a photo, and I can see that the url was saved in the database.
This is what I have:

# models.py
    class UserProfile(models.Model):
        ...
        title       = models.CharField()
        about_me    = models.CharField()
        profile_pic = models.ImageField(upload_to=content_file_name, blank=True)

# views.py
    def user_details(request):
        if request.method == 'POST':
            form = UserProfileForm(request.POST, request.FILES, instance=request.user.get_profile())
            if form.is_valid():
                form.save()
                return HttpResponseRedirect('/')
        else:
            form = UserProfileForm(instance=request.user.get_profile())
        return render_to_response('user_details.html',
                {'user': request.user, 'form': form},
                context_instance=RequestContext(request))

# user_details.html
    {% for field in form %}
      {% if field.name != "profile_pic" %}
        <!-- display regular fields -->
        {{ field.label_tag }}{{ field }}
      {% else %}
        <!-- display the user photo -->
        <img src="{{ MEDIA_URL }}{{ field.url }}" />
      {% endif %}
    {% endfor %}

When I view the source of the rendered HTML, all I see is the MEDIA_URL (ie ‘media/’) but not the photo url. If I replace {{ field.url }} with {{ field }} I get the url with the label “Currently”, a “Clear” checkbox and an option to change image. But I cannot see the image itself.
Can anyone suggest what am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

Sorry, I didn’t pay close enough attention to the context of field. The “field” you get from the for loop is a specialized wrapper that includes other data about the field for the purposes of constructing the form. It’s not the field on the model itself, just a representation of it for the purposes of the form.

To get the current value of profile_pic, you need to use the form’s instance:

<img src="{{ form.instance.profile_pic.url }}" />

{{ MEDIA_URL }} is unnecessary when using the url attribute, since it automatically appends MEDIA_URL.