Django ImageField is not updating when update() method is used
django, imagefield, python
Solution
The `QuerySet.update()` method doesn't call `save()` on the model, and so the usual mechanism that places the image into storage is not executed. In addition, you must retrieve the uploaded image from `request.FILES` not `request.POST`.
Rather than using `update()`, if you set the attributes on the model instance and then call `save()`, the image should get saved to the correct place on disk. For example:
profile_pic = request.FILES.get('profile_pic') # Use request.FILES
bio = request.POST.get('bio')
city = request.POST.get('city')
dob = request.POST.get('dob')
gender = request.POST.get('gender')
user_profile = Profile.objects.get(user=request.user)
user_profile.bio = bio
user_profile.city = city
user_profile.date_of_birth = dob
user_profile.profile_pic = profile_pic
user_profile.gender = gender
user_profile.save()
You must also ensure that the form has the `enctype="multipart/form-data"` attribute set.
Problem
I am updating some of fields in model from views.py file. All other fields are updated properly when I use ``` Profile.objects.filter(id=user_profile.id).update( bio=bio, city=city, date_of_birth=dob, profile_pic=profile_pic, gender=gender ) ``` only, `profile_pic = models.ImageField(blank=True)` is not updated, Weird thing is when I check my `Profile` model from admins.py it shows me the file name which I uploaded, But my file is not shown in my `/media` directory(where I upload my all Images) views.py ``` def edit_submit(request): if request.method == 'POST': profile_pic = request.POST.get('profile_pic') bio = request.POST.get('bio') city = request.POST.get('city') dob = request.POST.get('dob') gender = request.POST.get('gender') user_profile = Profile.objects.get(user=request.user) Profile.objects.filter(id=user_profile.id).update( bio=bio, city=city, date_of_birth=dob, profile_pic=profile_pic, gender=gender ) return HttpResponseRedirect(reverse('profile', args=[user_profile.id])) ``` This is how I manage my media files in settings.py ``` MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'media') MEDIA_URL = '/media/' ``` I think only text is stored in ImageField and Image is not uploded to `/media` directory Note: I am using `<input type="file" name="profile_pic" class="change_user_img">` for getting image from template