Django Field that implement the following features:
- Django-Storages compatible (S3)
- Python 2, 3 and PyPy support
- Resize images to different sizes
- Access thumbnails on model level, no template tags required
- Preserves original image
- Asynchronous rendering (Celery & Co)
- Multi threading and processing for optimum performance
- Restrict accepted image dimensions
- Rename files to a standardized name (using a callable upload_to)
Simply install the latest stable package using the command
easy_install django-stdimage
or pip django-stdimage
and add 'stdimage'
to INSTALLED_APPs
in your settings.py, that's it!
StdImageField
works just like Django's own ImageField except that you can specify different sized variations.
- Variations
Variations are specified withing a dictionary. The key will will be the attribute referencing the resized image. A variation can be defined both as a tuple or a dictionary.
- Example
For using generated variations in templates use "myimagefield.variation_name".
- Example
- Utils
By default StdImageField stores images without modifying the file name. If you want to use more consistent file names you can use the build in upload callables.
- Example
- Validators
The StdImageField doesn't implement any size validation. Validation can be specified using the validator attribute and using a set of validators shipped with this package. Validators can be used for both Forms and Models.
- Example
CAUTION: The MaxSizeValidator should be used with caution. As storage isn't expensive, you shouldn't restrict upload dimensions. If you seek prevent users form overflowing your memory you should restrict the HTTP upload body size.
- Deleting images
Django dropped support. for automated deletions in version 1.3. Implementing file deletion should be done. inside your own applications using the post_delete or pre_delete signal. Clearing the field if blank is true, does not delete the file. This can also be achieved using pre_save and post_save signals. This packages contains two signal callback methods that handle file deletion for all SdtImageFields of a model. .. code :: python
from stdimage import pre_delete_delete_callback, pre_save_delete_callback
post_delete.connect(pre_delete_delete_callback, sender=MyModel) pre_save.connect(pre_save_delete_callback, sender=MyModel)
Warning: You should not use the signal callbacks in production. They may result in data loss.
- Async image processing
Tools like celery allow to execute time-consuming tasks outside of the request. If you don't want to wait for your variations to be rendered in request, StdImage provides your the option to pass a async keyword and a util. Note that the callback is not transaction save, but the file will be there. This example is based on celery.
tasks.py
models.py
- Re-rendering variations
You might want to add new variations to a field. That means you need to render new variations for missing fields. This can be accomplished using a management command. .. code :
python manage.py rendervariations 'app_name.model_name.field_name' [--replace]
The replace option will replace all existing files.
- Multi processing
Since version 2 stdImage supports multiprocessing. Every image is rendered in separate process. It not only increased performance but the garbage collection and therefore the huge memory footprint from previous versions.
Note: PyPy seems to have some problems regarding multiprocessing, for that matter all multiprocessing is disabled in PyPy.
Getting started is easy. After setting up your env, just install:
pip install -r requirements-dev.txt; pre-commit install
To make contributing even easier, make sure your editor's or IDE's [EditorConfig] support is enabled.
To run the tests simply run python setup.py test