Django-DownloadView provides generic views to make Django serve files.
It can serve files from models, storages, local filesystem, arbitrary URL... and even generated files.
For increased performances, it can delegate the actual streaming to a reverse proxy, via mechanisms such as Nginx’s X-Accel.
In some urls.py, serve files managed in a model:
from django.conf.urls import url, url_patterns
from django_downloadview import ObjectDownloadView
from demoproject.download.models import Document # A model with a FileField
# ObjectDownloadView inherits from django.views.generic.BaseDetailView.
download = ObjectDownloadView.as_view(model=Document, file_field='file')
url_patterns = ('',
url('^download/(?P<slug>[A-Za-z0-9_-]+)/$', download, name='download'),
)
More examples in the “demo” documentation!
Several views are provided to cover frequent use cases:
See “views” documentation for details.
See also “optimizations” documentation to get increased performances.