Save an image generated with wand to django ImageField

Question

I'm trying to generate a preview for an "overlay" config stored in a django model than will be applied later to other model. I have not much experience manipulating files with python... =(

Here is my code:

import io
from django.conf import settings
from django.db import models
from wand.image import Image
from PIL.ImageFile import ImageFile, Parser, Image as PilImage

class Overlay(models.Model):
    RELATIVE_POSITIONS = (...)
    SIZE_MODES = (...)

    name = models.CharField(max_length=50)
    source = models.FileField(upload_to='overlays/%Y/%m/%d')
    sample = models.ImageField(upload_to='overlay_samples/%Y/%m/%d', blank=True)
    px = models.SmallIntegerField(default=0)
    py = models.SmallIntegerField(default=0)
    position = models.CharField(max_length=2, choices=RELATIVE_POSITIONS)
    width = models.SmallIntegerField(default=0)
    height = models.SmallIntegerField(default=0)
    size_mode = models.CharField(max_length=1, choices=SIZE_MODES, default='B')
    last_edit = models.DateTimeField(auto_now=True)

    def generate_sample(self):
        """
        Generates the sample image and saves it in the "sample" field model
        :return: void
        """
        base_pic = Image(filename=os.path.join(settings.BASE_DIR, 'girl.jpg'))
        overlay_pic = Image(file=self.source)
        result_pic = io.BytesIO()
        pil_parser = Parser()

        if self.width or self.height:
            resize_args = {}
            if self.width:
                resize_args['width'] = self.width
            if self.height:
                resize_args['height'] = self.height
            overlay_pic.resize(**resize_args)
            base_pic.composite(overlay_pic, self.px, self.py)
            base_pic.save(file=result_pic)

        result_pic.seek(0)
        while True:
            s = result_pic.read(1024)
            if not s:
                break
            pil_parser.feed(s)

        pil_result_pic = pil_parser.close()
        self.sample.save(self.name, pil_result_pic, False)

    def save(self, force_insert=False, force_update=False, using=None, update_fields=None):
        self.generate_sample()
        super(Overlay, self).save(force_insert, force_update, using, update_fields)

But i'm getting AttributeError read here is part on my django debug data:

 /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/core/files/utils.py in <lambda>

    """
    encoding = property(lambda self: self.file.encoding)
    fileno = property(lambda self: self.file.fileno)
    flush = property(lambda self: self.file.flush)
    isatty = property(lambda self: self.file.isatty)
    newlines = property(lambda self: self.file.newlines)
    read = property(lambda self: self.file.read)
    readinto = property(lambda self: self.file.readinto)
    readline = property(lambda self: self.file.readline)
    readlines = property(lambda self: self.file.readlines)
    seek = property(lambda self: self.file.seek)
    softspace = property(lambda self: self.file.softspace)
    tell = property(lambda self: self.file.tell)

▼ Local vars Variable Value

self    <File: None>



/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/PIL/Image.py in __getattr__

        # numpy array interface support
        new = {}
        shape, typestr = _conv_type_shape(self)
        new['shape'] = shape
        new['typestr'] = typestr
        new['data'] = self.tobytes()
        return new
    raise AttributeError(name)

def __getstate__(self):
    return [
        self.info,
        self.mode,
        self.size,

▼ Local vars Variable Value

self    <PIL.JpegImagePlugin.JpegImageFile image mode=RGB size=1080x1618 at 0x7F1429291248>
name    'read'

What's wrong?

Answer 1

Solved!

Such as @Alexey Kuleshevich was saying django FileField need a Fileobjeto, but what was missing is that we must first save the image to a file on disk or in memory, as will guess it's better memory... so here is the final solution. I think it could be improved to not use two step "conversion"

from django.core.files.base import ContentFile

and within the method:

    result_pic = io.BytesIO()
    pil_parser = Parser()

    ...
    overlay_pic.resize(**resize_args)
    base_pic.composite(overlay_pic, self.px, self.py)
    base_pic.save(file=result_pic)

    result_pic.seek(0)
    while True:
        s = result_pic.read(1024)
        if not s:
            break
        pil_parser.feed(s)

    result_pic = io.BytesIO()
    pil_result_pic = pil_parser.close()
    pil_result_pic.save(result_pic, format='JPEG')
    django_file = ContentFile(result_pic.getvalue())
    self.sample.save(self.name, django_file, False)

Thanks to this answer: How do you convert a PIL Image to a Django File?