Question

I’ve got a class like this:

class Image (models.Model):
    ...
    sizes = ((90,90), (300,250))

    def resize_image(self):
        for size in sizes:
            ...

and another class like this:

class SomeClassWithAnImage (models.Model):
    ...
    an_image = models.ForeignKey(Image)

what i’d like to do with that class is this:

class SomeClassWithAnImage (models.Model):
    ...
    an_image = models.ForeignKey(Image, sizes=((90,90), (150, 120)))

where i’m can specify the sizes that i want the Image class to use to resize itself as a argument rather than being hard coded on the class. I realise I could pass these in when calling resize_image if that was called directly but the idea is that the resize_image method is called automatically when the object is persisted to the db.

if I try to pass arguments through the foreign key declaration like this i get an error straight away. is there an easy / better way to do this before I begin hacking down into django?

Answer 1

You might be pushing it uphill; it’s uncommon to try and apply arguments to FK’s.

The conventional solution to your specifics is to use a thumbnailer (like “sorl”) to do a thumbnail substitution immediately before delivery – ie: in the template eg:

{% thumbnail myobj.image 500 500 %}

Although personally I have added routines into my classes to make it easier to access those thumbnails. eg:

def thumbnail(self):
     path = # work out the path to the thumbnail
     try:
         #access the path where I expect the thumbnail file to be
     except #failure:
         # generate the thumbnail using the dimensions specified by the class
     return #path to the thumbnail