form cleaned_data does not have uploaded request.FILES content

[stefan@…]

Hi,

I've file uploading in my project for a while now and it worked pretty fine.
But after not testing it for a while it seems that since a more or less recent django svn version
things stopped working. My code is like this:

        print request.FILES
        # files have <content omitted> printed

        request.POST.update(request.FILES)
        print request.POST
        # same as above, content is there

        form = TestForm(request.POST)

        if form.is_valid():
           # form.cleaned_data does not contain content anymore

I've tried some things and I can only think of a bug in django.

[Karen Tracey <kmtracey@…>]

Or perhaps things have changed that your code needs to adjust to. Current doc here describes passing request.FILES in when constructing the form:

​http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/newforms/#binding-uploaded-files-to-a-form

It's marked new in development version so maybe it used to be done via the request.POST.update? I don't know, but I do know uploading files works for me using the method described in the doc, as of a very recent checkout.