django-cleanup 4.0.1

Features

The django-cleanup app automatically deletes files for FileField, ImageField and subclasses. When a FileField’s value is changed and the model is saved, the old file is deleted. When a model that has a FileField is deleted, the file is also deleted. A file that is set as the FileField’s default value will not be deleted.

How does it work?

In order to track changes of a FileField and facilitate file deletions, django-cleanup connects post_init, pre_save, post_save and post_delete signals to signal handlers for each INSTALLED_APPS model that has a FileField. In order to tell whether or not a FileField’s value has changed a local cache of original values is kept on the model instance. If a condition is detected that should result in a file deletion, a function to delete the file is setup and inserted into the commit phase of the current transaction.

Warning! If you are using a database that does not support transactions you may lose files if a transaction will rollback at the right instance. This outcome is mitigated by our use of post_save and post_delete signals, and by following the recommended configuration below. This outcome will still occur if there are signals registered after app initialization and there are exceptions when those signals are handled. In this case, the old file will be lost and the new file will not be referenced in a model, though the new file will likely still exist on disk. If you are concerned about this behavior you will need another solution for old file deletion in your project.

Installation

pip install django-cleanup

Configuration

Add django_cleanup to the bottom of INSTALLED_APPS in settings.py

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    ...,
    'django_cleanup.apps.CleanupConfig',
)

That is all, no other configuration is necessary.

Note: Order of INSTALLED_APPS is important. To ensure that exceptions inside other apps’ signal handlers do not affect the integrity of file deletions within transactions, django_cleanup should be placed last in INSTALLED_APPS.

Troubleshooting

If you notice that django-cleanup is not removing files when expected, check that your models are being properly loaded:

You must define or import all models in your application’s models.py or models/__init__.py. Otherwise, the application registry may not be fully populated at this point, which could cause the ORM to malfunction.

If your models are not loaded, django-cleanup will not be able to discover their FileField’s.

You can check if your Model is loaded by using

from django.apps import apps
apps.get_models()

Advanced

This section contains additional functionality that can be used to interact with django-cleanup for special cases.

from django_cleanup.signals import cleanup_pre_delete
from sorl.thumbnail import delete

def sorl_delete(**kwargs):
    delete(kwargs['file'])

cleanup_pre_delete.connect(sorl_delete)

from django_cleanup import cleanup

cleanup.refresh(model_instance)

from django_cleanup import cleanup

@cleanup.ignore
class MyModel(models.Model):
    image = models.FileField()

How to run tests

Install, setup and use pyenv to install all the required versions of cPython (see the tox.ini).

Setup pyenv to have all versions of python activated within your local django-cleanup repository. Ensuring that the python 2.7 that was installed is first priority.

Install tox on python 2.7 and run the tox command from your local django-cleanup repository.

How to write tests

This app requires the use of django.test.TransactionTestCase when writing tests.

For details on why this is required see here:

Django’s TestCase class wraps each test in a transaction and rolls back that transaction after each test, in order to provide test isolation. This means that no transaction is ever actually committed, thus your on_commit() callbacks will never be run. If you need to test the results of an on_commit() callback, use a TransactionTestCase instead.

License

django-cleanup is free software under terms of the:

MIT License

Copyright (C) 2012 by Ilya Shalyapin, ishalyapin@gmail.com

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.