[Chicago] django streaming zip

[Carl Karsten]

"Like Python's ZipFile module, except it works as a generator that provides
the file in many small chunks."

Neat!

and yes, exactly what I was hoping for.



On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 9:34 AM, Chris Sinchok <chris at sinchok.com> wrote:

> A couple thoughts on this:
>
> 1. You could use the `zipfile` module to create a temporary file, and then
> stream that, deleting it once the streaming is done.
> 2. You could try something like this, which appears to do almost exactly
> what you want: https://github.com/allanlei/python-zipstream (I've
> personally never tried this package before, though)
>
> - Chris
>
> On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 3:11 AM, Carl Karsten <carl at personnelware.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I have a django app and nginx serving up static files.
>>
>> I want the user to be able to get a set of files.  it will be 5 to 10
>> files, most of them will be 5-10 meg, so about 50-100 meg total.
>>
>> The thought is provide a zip link, click the link, get a zip file.
>>
>> I am trying to avoid creating zip files on the local fs, either ahead of
>> time or on the fly.  I am hoping I can pass something a list of file names
>> and it will return the a file like object that I can pass on to whatever
>> and the client will get is zip file as the server creates it.
>>
>> btw, it is a cut list (xml of file names and cut points) 2 png, 2-10
>> .webm files.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Carl K
>>
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