Django Form field in Initial Data: requires a FieldFile instance

I just followed the source back from django’s ClearableFileInput all the way to django’s model field magic… all the way to a little thing called FieldFile.

FieldFile can be faked with these minimum attributes:

from django.core.files.storage import default_storage

class FakeField(object):
    storage = default_storage

fieldfile = FieldFile(None, FakeField, file_path)

form = SomeForm(initial={'filefield': fieldfile })

WHEW!

Published by Yuji Tomita

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2 Comments

  1. Mario says:
    January 12, 2016 at 11:15 am

    OMG! Cant believe I found this! If you ever are in Switzerland, Zurich, make sure to ring me up so I can invite you for beers!

    Reply
    1. Yuji says:
      January 12, 2016 at 11:35 am

      Hey I might take you up on that.. sounds amazing. I’m glad it helped! This is a super obscure post. I think I was working on re-rendering a large dynamic form as it was filled 😛

      Reply

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