File Widget

The file widget allows you to upload a new file to the server. The “file” type of the “INPUT” element is described here:

http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/interact/forms.html#edef-INPUT

As for all widgets, the file widget must provide the new IWidget interface:

>>> from zope.interface.verify import verifyClass
>>> from z3c.form import interfaces
>>> from z3c.form.browser import file

>>> verifyClass(interfaces.IWidget, file.FileWidget)
True

The widget can be instantiated only using the request:

>>> from z3c.form.testing import TestRequest
>>> request = TestRequest()

>>> widget = file.FileWidget(request)

Before rendering the widget, one has to set the name and id of the widget:

>>> widget.id = 'widget.id'
>>> widget.name = 'widget.name'

We also need to register the template for the widget:

>>> import zope.component
>>> from zope.pagetemplate.interfaces import IPageTemplate
>>> from z3c.form.testing import getPath
>>> from z3c.form.widget import WidgetTemplateFactory

>>> zope.component.provideAdapter(
...     WidgetTemplateFactory(getPath('file_input.pt'), 'text/html'),
...     (None, None, None, None, interfaces.IFileWidget),
...     IPageTemplate, name=interfaces.INPUT_MODE)

If we render the widget we get a simple input element:

>>> print widget.render()
<input type="file" id="widget.id" name="widget.name"
       class="file-widget" />

Let’s now make sure that we can extract user entered data from a widget:

>>> import cStringIO
>>> myfile = cStringIO.StringIO('My file contents.')

>>> widget.request = TestRequest(form={'widget.name': myfile})
>>> widget.update()
>>> widget.extract()
<cStringIO.StringI object at ...>

If nothing is found in the request, the default is returned:

>>> widget.request = TestRequest()
>>> widget.update()
>>> widget.extract()
<NO_VALUE>

Make also sure that we can handle FileUpload objects given form a file upload.

>>> import cStringIO
>>> from zope.publisher.browser import FileUpload

Let’s define a FieldStorage stub:

>>> class FieldStorageStub:
...     def __init__(self, file):
...         self.file = file
...         self.headers = {}
...         self.filename = 'foo.bar'

Now build a FileUpload:

>>> myfile = cStringIO.StringIO('File upload contents.')
>>> aFieldStorage = FieldStorageStub(myfile)
>>> myUpload = FileUpload(aFieldStorage)

>>> widget.request = TestRequest(form={'widget.name': myUpload})
>>> widget.update()
>>> widget.extract()
<zope.publisher.browser.FileUpload object at ...>

If we render them, we get a regular file upload widget:

>>> print widget.render()
<input type="file" id="widget.id" name="widget.name"
       class="file-widget" />