Admin integration

Adding dedupebackend to INSTALLED_APPS gives you an admin page where you can check your uploaded files. I allready let you know dedupebackend just throws verything in a large folder, but that does not mean you can not add structure to the storage. Just not on a filesystem level. You should add structure by adding relations to other models. It is easy enough to add categories or something:

class FileCategory(models.Model):
    files = models.ManyToManyField('dedupebackend.UniqueFile')
    name = models.TextField()

If you want to add a filter to the dedupebackend admin, try something like this:

from dedupebackend.admin import UniqueFileAdmin
from dedupebackend.models import UniqueFile

admin.site.unregister(UniqueFile)

class CategoryUniqueFileAdmin(UniqueFileAdmin):
    list_filter = UniqueFileAdmin.list_filter + ('filecategory__name',)

admin.site.register(UniqueFile, CategoryUniqueFileAdmin)

that might need some work, I never tested it :p

fields

There are some fields in dedupebackend you can use instead of the django FileField and ImageField. You get a picker added to that, you can use to select a file from the existing uploaded files.

Use something like this:

from dedupebackend.fields import *

class KoeHenkModel(model.Model):
    name = models.TextField()
    file = UniqueFileField("A normal file, nothing special")
    image = UniqueImageField("an image")