This is an example django project demonstrating how to use django-attach. The project requires markdown and beautifulsoup4 to run properly:
pip3 install markdown
pip3 install beautifulsoup4
You can run the server in the usual way:
python3 manage.py runserver
The admin interface will be available at localhost:8000/admin/. Log in with:
Username: admin Password: admin
The project contains an application app, which defines model Article.
The field
attachments = GenericRelation(Attachment)
gives you access to the attached files. The ArticleAdmin class lists
AttachmentInline in inlines, which ensures that a custom django-attach
inline formset is shown on the change page of the model in the admin interface.
There are three views defined: ArticleList, ArticleDetail and attachment.
ArticleList produces an overview of articles on the home page, ArticleDetail
displays a single article under /article/<pk>/, and attachment is
responsible for serving attachments at /article/<pk>/<name>. Attachments can
therefore be referenced by their simple name when shown by ArticleDetail.
However, the overview of articles requires that the links are converted to their
absolute counterparts. This is done by the baseurl filter
(app/templatetags/baseurl.py).
baseurl uses beautifulsoup4
to extend references to attachments in links, images and style attributes.
Feel free to use it in your own project, but note that it is by no means
complete (there are many more possibilities where references can occur).
The attachment view serves files by issuing a HTTP redirect to the correct
location under MEDIA_URL. Therefore, requests are handled by the
HTTP server if you use any (and not by django).