File uploads

[JohnHardy]

Hello! Loving Ormar!

I am migrating some ideas from a Django project and wondering the best way to manage file uploads (akin to FileField). Have I missed some obvious documentation?

Is there a best practice for how to manage saving files using the File and UploadFile classes? Perhaps similar to this: tortoise/tortoise-orm#100 (comment)

I had a quick look at how to add something myself to Ormar, but thought I would ask before starting, as I doubt I am the first to wonder. :)

Thanks!
John

[collerek]

If you want to keep the files in db (which usually is not a good practice) you can simply use binary column.

If you want to upload a file through API (assuming fastapi) you need to send form/multipart anyway like explained in example here: fastapi/fastapi#657

[JohnHardy]

Thanks for your help. I'm not trying to store a file in the DB :) I was wondering how to manage the files being uploaded and saved to disk - it is something I need to do by hand?