from django.db import models class DBFile(models.Model): """ Model to store and access uploaded files """ # This is kept as `name` and not something like `md5` because the file # operations pass around `name` as the identifier, so it's kept the same # to make sense. name = models.CharField(max_length=100) filehash = models.CharField(max_length=32, primary_key=True) # file data content_type = models.CharField(max_length=100) b64 = models.TextField() def __unicode__(self): return u"{filehash} <{content_type}>".format( filehash=self.filehash, content_type=self.content_type) def save(self, **kwargs): if self.content_type is None: # If content type guessing fails, # use octet stream as a major fallback self.content_type = "application/octet-stream" super(DBFile, self).save(**kwargs)