File-Backend or Filemanagement

[Muri Nicanor]

Hi list,

i'm writing a Django application that has the management of textfiles on
the server as one of the requirements. I've already created a model that
parses the textfiles and provides a way of editing the files. To choose
the indivdiual textfiles i created a simple view that does a file
listing (basically an os.listdir()), but that is not really a flexible
solution (i.e. i would like to have pagination). I was wondering if it
was possible to use a ListView and use the file listing as a source of
objects instead of a database query?

Another option would be to go deeper and try to write a 'file-based'
database backend. Are there any howtos to write database backends for
Django?

thanks and cheers,
Muri

[Melvyn Sopacua]

On zondag 29 juli 2018 10:50:58 CEST Muri Nicanor wrote:

> i'm writing a Django application that has the management of textfiles on
> the server as one of the requirements. I've already created a model that
> parses the textfiles and provides a way of editing the files. To choose
> the indivdiual textfiles i created a simple view that does a file
> listing (basically an os.listdir()), but that is not really a flexible
> solution (i.e. i would like to have pagination).

Please don't reinvent the wheel. There's plenty to choose from.
https://djangopackages.org/grids/g/file-managers/
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Melvyn Sopacua