I use django-storages and have user related content stored in folders on S3. Now I want users to have the ability to download all their files at once, preferably in a zip file. All the previous posts related to this are old or not working for me.
The closest to working code I have so far:
from io import BytesIO
import zipfile
from django.conf import settings
from ..models import Something
from django.core.files.storage import default_storage
class DownloadIncomeTaxFiles(View):
def get(self, request, id):
itr = Something.objects.get(id=id)
files = itr.attachments
zfname = 'somezip.zip'
b = BytesIO()
with zipfile.ZipFile(b, 'w') as zf:
for current_file in files:
try:
fh = default_storage.open(current_file.file.name, "r")
zf.writestr(fh.name, bytes(fh.read()))
except Exception as e:
print(e)
response = HttpResponse(zf, content_type="application/x-zip-compressed")
response['Content-Disposition'] = 'attachment; filename={}'.format(zfname)
return response
This creates what looks like a zipfile but the only content it has is '<zipfile.ZipFile [closed]>'
I got many different results, mainly with errors like zipfile expecting string or bytes content while a FieldFile is provided. At this point I'm completely stuck.
The problem was that I needed to revert back to the beginning of the file by adding
zf.seek(0)
just before returning the file in the HttpResponse.