Saving Original File Name in Django with FileField

Question

def generate_uuid_file_name(self, filename):
    self.original_filename = filename
    extension = filename.rsplit('.', 1)[1]
    newfilename = uuid.uuid4().__str__() + '.' + extension
    return self.directory() + newfilename

class FileUpload(models.Model):
    original_filename  = models.CharField(max_length=128)
    fileobj            = models.FileField(upload_to=generate_uuid_file_name)

On upload,

{"errors": {"original_filename": ["This field is required."]}, "success": false}

Adding blank=True, null=True to the FileUpload.original_filename allows the upload to succeed but does not save the original file name. On Django 1.5. According to this post, this should work.

Answer 1

Do that in the view (after null=True, blank=True are again part of your model):

file_object = UploadFileForm.save(commit=False)
file_object.original_filename = request.FILES['file'].name
file_object.save()

Mind that you will need to change the above code accordingly with your context etc