# -*- coding: utf-8 -*- # # custom storage class # and storage related tools # from django.conf import settings from django.core.files.storage import FileSystemStorage from django.db.models.fields.files import FieldFile import os ### OverwriteStorage ### class OverwriteStorage(FileSystemStorage): """ overwrite original file before store the new one """ def get_available_name(self, name): """ Returns a filename that's free on the target storage system, and available for new content to be written to. Ref: http://djangosnippets.org/snippets/976/ This file storage solves overwrite on upload problem. Another proposed solution was to override the save method on the model like so (from https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/11663): def save(self, *args, **kwargs): try: this = MyModelName.objects.get(id=self.id) if this.MyImageFieldName != self.MyImageFieldName: this.MyImageFieldName.delete() except: pass super(MyModelName, self).save(*args, **kwargs) """ # If the filename already exists, # remove it as if it was a true file system if self.exists(name): filepath = os.path.join(settings.MEDIA_ROOT, name) if os.path.isfile(filepath): os.remove(filepath) return name ### delete files associated with model FileField # Pre-delete signal function for deleting files a model # https://djangosnippets.org/snippets/2820/ def file_cleanup(sender, instance, *args, **kwargs): """ Deletes the file(s) associated with a model instance. The model is not saved after deletion of the file(s) since this is meant to be used with the pre_delete signal. """ for field_name, _ in instance.__dict__.iteritems(): field = getattr(instance, field_name) if (issubclass(field.__class__, FieldFile) and field.name): # pass False so FileField does not save the model field.delete(save=False)