[reportlab-users] Save PDF File to model using two views

[Robin Becker]

On 28/06/2011 14:42, Asif Jamadar wrote:

> How can I save the dynamically generated PDF report into separate django model (database) as file.

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> The below code works fine for me

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Hi it looks to me as though analysis_report is producing a response into which 
you have written a PDF. That is not the same as writing it into a StringIO 
object. So in the first OK view you did

pdf = buffer.getvalue()	#produces a stringof bytes
myfile = ContentFile(pdf)

in the second I see this sequence

pdf = buffer.getvalue()
response.write(pdf)
return response

.....

report = analysis_report(request)  #ie the returned response
myfile = ContentFile(report)       #not a string of bytes

and presumably the error happens here ie report is a response and not a string.

It may be better to factor out the pdf production bit from the analysis_report 
function and use it directly.
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Robin Becker