Django image resize on the fly
Andrei Koptev
Posted on February 11, 2021
Init
Django model with image field
Purpose
Resize image to some template size (typed size)
Short
- Catch original image from field
- Resize it through
PIL
and save toBytesIO
output - Send
output
toContentFile
- Send
ContentFile
toFile
- Run
self.avatar.save(<name>, file, save=False)
in model save method
Detail
ResizeImageMixin
import uuid
from PIL import Image
from io import BytesIO
from django.core.files import File
from django.core.files.base import ContentFile
from django.db import models
class ResizeImageMixin:
def resize(self, imageField: models.ImageField, size:tuple):
im = Image.open(imageField) # Catch original
source_image = im.convert('RGB')
source_image.thumbnail(size) # Resize to size
output = BytesIO()
source_image.save(output, format='JPEG') # Save resize image to bytes
output.seek(0)
content_file = ContentFile(output.read()) # Read output and create ContentFile in memory
file = File(content_file)
random_name = f'{uuid.uuid4()}.jpeg'
imageField.save(random_name, file, save=False)
models.py
class User(Base, AbstractUser, ResizeImageMixin):
def __str__(self):
return f'{self.username}'
def save(self, *args, **kwargs):
if self.pk is None:
self.resize(self.avatar, (200, 200))
super().save(*args, **kwargs)
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Andrei Koptev
Posted on February 11, 2021
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