django-downloadview 1.7

Serve files with Django and reverse-proxies.

django-downloadview makes it easy to serve files with Django:

• you manage files with Django (permissions, filters, generation, …);

• files are stored somewhere or generated somehow (local filesystem, remote storage, memory…);

• django-downloadview helps you stream the files with very little code;

• django-downloadview helps you improve performances with reverse proxies, via mechanisms such as Nginx’s X-Accel or Apache’s X-Sendfile.

Example

Let’s serve a file stored in a file field of some 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'),
)

Resources

• Documentation: http://django-downloadview.readthedocs.org

• PyPI page: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-downloadview

• Code repository: https://github.com/benoitbryon/django-downloadview

• Bugtracker: https://github.com/benoitbryon/django-downloadview/issues

• Continuous integration: https://travis-ci.org/benoitbryon/django-downloadview

• Roadmap: https://github.com/benoitbryon/django-downloadview/milestones