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Is it possible to show a PDF file in the Django view, rather than making the user have to download it to see it?
And if it is possible, how would it be done?
This is what I have so far -
hygullSimplistically, if you have a PDF file and you want to output it through a Django view, all you need to do is dump the file contents into the response and send it with the appropriate mimetype.
You can probably just return the response directly without specifying Content-Disposition, but that better indicates your intention and also allows you specify the filename just in case the user decides to save it.
Also, note that the view above doesn't handle the scenario where the file cannot be opened or read for whatever reason. Since it's done with with
, it won't raise any exceptions, but you still must return some sort of response. You could simply raise an Http404
or something, though.
Django has a class specifically for returning files, FileResponse. It streams files, so that you don't have to read the entire file into memory before returning it. Here you go:
Sketchup pro 8 crack mac. If you have really large files or if you're doing this a lot, a better option would probably be to serve these files outside of Django using normal server configuration.
FlimmFlimmIf you are working on a Windows machine pdf must be opened as rb
not r
.
Take out inline; if you want your file to be read from server. And also, the HttpResponse
kwarg mimetype
has been replaced by content_type
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Following @radtek's answer above I decided to investigate a class-based view display. I tried to use View
but it didn't have get_context_data()
method.
I looked here for some guidance. I settled for BaseDetailView
since I wanted to display just one object.
Commentary
1 This line accesses a named argument pk
passed by the url calling the view.
2 This line gets the actual pdf model object.
3 I defined a method filename(self): return os.path.basename(self.file.name)
in my model to help me get just the filename plus extension.
4 This line gets the complete filepath.
Then use file response as explained in the answers above. Also remember to use rb
to read the pdf file
Here is a typical use-case for displaying a PDF using class-based views:
For generating your own pdf with reportlab see the Django project Docs on PDF Generation.
Chris Pratt's response shows a good example of opening existing PDFs.
radtekradtekBrowsers aren't PDF readers (unless they have the proper plugin/addon).
You may want to render the PDF as HTML instead, which can be done from the backend or the frontend.
I am just throwing this out there.
You can simply add your PDF resume to your static files.
If you are using White Noise to serve your static files, then you don't even need to make the view. Just then access your resume at the static location.
I added mine, here it is: https://www.jefferythewind.com/static/main/resume/TIm-D_Nice.pdf
Warning: This doesn't solve the login_required
requirement in the question
The easiest way to do this is probably with an anchor in a template. For example, if you are using Django's templating engine (as most people who search for this probably are), simply serve it as a static file through an anchor.
In your template that will contain a link to the file, add at the very top
Then, wherever you want to link to your pdf, put
The first line tells Django to look in the directories configured for static files in settings.py
. The path that you use in the anchor tag is relative to any of the directories that you configured as static directories in settings.py
. When you click the rendered link, it should display the PDF in your browser, provided you have your static files pathed correctly.