Django ImageField rename file on upload
By default Django keeps the original name of the uploaded file but more than likely you will want to rename it to something else (like the object's id). Luckily, with ImageField or FileField of Django forms, you can assign a callable function to the upload_to parameter to do the renaming. For example: from django.db import models from django.utils import timezone import os from uuid import uuid4 def path_and_rename (instance, filename): upload_to = 'photos' ext = filename.split('.')[-1] # get filename if instance.pk: filename = '{}.{}'.format(instance.pk, ext) else: # set filename as random string filename = '{}.{}'.format(uuid4().hex, ext) # return the whole path to the file return os.path.join(upload_to, filename) class CardInfo (models.Model): id_number = models.CharFie...