Storage

Djangae provides two storage backends. djangae.storage.CloudStorage and djangae.storage.BlobstoreStorage.

If you've imported djangae.settings_base.*, then the default backend is djangae.storage.CloudStorage

Cloud Storage

djangae.storage.CloudStorage is a django storage backend that works with Google Cloud Storage, you can treat it just as you would with other storage backends. Google Cloud storage is a general purpose storage backend.

To use this you need to install the GoogleAppEngineCloudStorageClient library.

• Cloud storage will use the default bucket name CLOUD_STORAGE_BUCKET unless specified with BUCKET_KEY in your settings.py

You can serve files directly from cloudstorage with the key or you can use the included djangae.storage.serve_file * serve_file will create a proxy in the blobstore which can then be used to serve the file, this may be more useful for access control.

Example usage

Images in this model will be publicly accessible and stored in main bucket of application.

Allowed storage permission levels are defined in docs - XML column.

from django.db import models
from djangae import fields, storage

public_storage = storage.CloudStorage(google_acl='public-read')

class Image(models.Model):
    image_file = models.ImageField(upload_to='/somewhere/', storage=public_storage)

Blobstore

djangae.storage.BlobstoreStorage is a storage backend that uses the blobstore, this may be more suitable for temporary file needs or file processing and is used as a proxy for serving files from Cloud Storage.