How to get all available values for FilePathField in Django 1.5?

Question

I have a model, which has FilePathField attribute. It has a folder to search, regular expression to match and other needed parameters.

I need a standard method to get the list of all available for this FilePathField paths. Or it does not exist?

Answer 1

No, there isn't one. You can write your own using path, match and recursive. However, this is how the admin widget form for FilePathField gets all the paths - https://github.com/django/django/blob/master/django/forms/fields.py#L999

from django.forms.fields import FilePathField
a = FilePathField(path='/path')
print a.choices