How to get an "Image" instance from decoded image file data (base64)

[ZhangChen199102]

I'm using FilerImageField in my model (Recipe): photo = FilerImageField(null=True, blank=True, related_name="recipe_photo", )

I tried to upload a encoded image file data (base64) to server, then decode it and get a ContentFile object by using ContentFile(decoded_image_data).

The issue is I got an error in serializer.is_valid(): Exception Value: Cannot assign "<ContentFile: Raw content>": "Recipe.photo" must be a "Image" instance.

I'm wondering how can I get an 'Image' instance from decoded image data, or convert "ContentFile" to "Image".

[kyale-mwendwa]

did you ever find away to resolve this issue ?

[stuaxo]

Looking through these old tickets I get the feeling Divio doesn't have the resources to address them.

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[stuaxo]

Hey stalebot this is still an issue.

[abdul-hamid-achik]

you need to create a record with Filer.Image field and add your ContentFile to the file attribute then use that Filer.Image instance and it will work:

example that works with my code:

        file = request.FILES["file"]
        contract = self.get_object()

        filer_file = File.objects.create(
            file=DjangoFile(file, file.name),
            name=file.name,
            owner=request.user,
        )
        document = ContractDocument.objects.create(
            file=filer_file,
            user=request.user,
            contract=contract,
            status="draft",
        )

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