[Zope3-Users] z3c.form image upload widget

[Martin Aspeli]

Roger Ineichen wrote:

> I think everything should be there for a simple file upload.
> The z3c.form doesn't have enhanced upload features.
> 
> One way to implement an object replacement whould be to
> ad an addditional field (bool) in the object schema
> and depneding on that input replace the file in the
> EditForm.applyChanges method.
> 
> If this replace-me field is a part of the archetype file,
> then a new widget whould be the right thing.
> 
> btw, the default z3c.form widget returns the bytes data
> as widget value in applyChanges based on the converters
> convertion. Probably an archtype file widget should return
> an archetype? But this depends on the type of schema field
> which is used.

I'm not actually using Archetypes, I just want something with equivalent 
functionality.

At the end of the day, I want to store a blob and be able to download it 
again.

Martin

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