Django Binary or BLOB field

Question

I have a C # program that inserts a PDF inside a MySQL database. Now I want to get this pdf file through django, but django models.FileField needs the “Download” parameter, which means that behind the scenes it actually stores the file in the file system, not the database. Is there a way to create a django model so that I can store the PDF directly in MySQL?

Hi

Answer 1

I dealt with the same problem by writing a pdf file for the mediumblob field in mysql and extracting through django. I set the mysql field type for the mediumblob field and django for the text field. I used the request and httpresponse to view PDF objects in a browser (but not directly in django).

Answer 2

Like the update to this, starting with Django 1.6, there is now the BinaryField option, which will store files up to 4 GB in size. https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/models/fields/#django.db.models.BinaryField