Django: Validate file type of uploaded file
For posterity: the solution is to use the read
method and pass that to magic.from_buffer
.
class UploadedFileForm(ModelForm):
def clean_file(self):
file = self.cleaned_data.get("file", False)
filetype = magic.from_buffer(file.read())
if not "XML" in filetype:
raise ValidationError("File is not XML.")
return file
class Meta:
model = models.UploadedFile
exclude = ('project',)
Validating files is a common challenge, so I would like to use a validator:
import magic
from django.utils.deconstruct import deconstructible
from django.template.defaultfilters import filesizeformat
@deconstructible
class FileValidator(object):
error_messages = {
'max_size': ("Ensure this file size is not greater than %(max_size)s."
" Your file size is %(size)s."),
'min_size': ("Ensure this file size is not less than %(min_size)s. "
"Your file size is %(size)s."),
'content_type': "Files of type %(content_type)s are not supported.",
}
def __init__(self, max_size=None, min_size=None, content_types=()):
self.max_size = max_size
self.min_size = min_size
self.content_types = content_types
def __call__(self, data):
if self.max_size is not None and data.size > self.max_size:
params = {
'max_size': filesizeformat(self.max_size),
'size': filesizeformat(data.size),
}
raise ValidationError(self.error_messages['max_size'],
'max_size', params)
if self.min_size is not None and data.size < self.min_size:
params = {
'min_size': filesizeformat(self.min_size),
'size': filesizeformat(data.size)
}
raise ValidationError(self.error_messages['min_size'],
'min_size', params)
if self.content_types:
content_type = magic.from_buffer(data.read(), mime=True)
data.seek(0)
if content_type not in self.content_types:
params = { 'content_type': content_type }
raise ValidationError(self.error_messages['content_type'],
'content_type', params)
def __eq__(self, other):
return (
isinstance(other, FileValidator) and
self.max_size == other.max_size and
self.min_size == other.min_size and
self.content_types == other.content_types
)
Then you can use FileValidator
in your models.FileField
or forms.FileField
as follows:
validate_file = FileValidator(max_size=1024 * 100,
content_types=('application/xml',))
file = models.FileField(upload_to=settings.XML_ROOT,
validators=[validate_file])
From django 1.11, you can also use FileExtensionValidator.
from django.core.validators import FileExtensionValidator
class UploadedFile(models.Model):
file = models.FileField(upload_to=settings.XML_ROOT,
validators=[FileExtensionValidator(allowed_extensions=['xml'])])
Note this must be used on a FileField and won't work on a CharField (for example), since the validator validates on value.name.
ref: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/validators/#fileextensionvalidator