#34540 closed New feature (wontfix)

[feature request] Run FileField storage callable during runtime and not during buildtime

Reported by: Vasanth Owned by: nobody
Component: File uploads/storage Version: dev
Severity: Normal Keywords:
Cc: Triage Stage: Accepted
Has patch: no Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no

Description (last modified by Vasanth)

If the storage callable can be invoked during runtime similar to the "upload_to", it can allow us to choose the storage to use dynamically. This is particularly helpful for SaaS services which prefer maintaining independent storages per client/subdomain.

Something like, the following snippet where local_state.tenant is threading local() which holds the name of the tenant for each request

def tenant_storage(instance, filename):
    tenant = getattr(local_state, "tenant", "default")
    return storages[tenant]

Change History (5)

comment:1 by Vasanth, 18 months ago

Description: modified (diff)

comment:2 by Natalia Bidart, 18 months ago

Triage Stage: UnreviewedAccepted
Version: 4.2dev

Accepting since I agree that there is no need to evaluate the callable at field creation time, and that there is value in having consistency between upload_to and storage.

comment:3 by Natalia Bidart, 18 months ago

Actually on a second thought, this may be best decided in the forum to have a wider audience. Posting there!

comment:4 by Mariusz Felisiak, 18 months ago

Also, this is a documented behavior so we cannot change it without the deprecation path:

"Your callable will be evaluated when your models classes are loaded, and must return an instance of Storage."

-1 from me.

Last edited 18 months ago by Mariusz Felisiak (previous) (diff)

in reply to:  4 comment:5 by Natalia Bidart, 18 months ago

Resolution: wontfix
Status: newclosed

Replying to Mariusz Felisiak:

Also, this is a documented behavior so we cannot change it without the deprecation path:

"Your callable will be evaluated when your models classes are loaded, and must return an instance of Storage."

-1 from me.

Good point, I'll close for now as wontfix, then if there is enough traction in the forum we can revisit. Thanks!

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