In order to have more flexible file serving functionality within Odoo, you can swap out binary fields for a functional field that returns the contents of your file. Below is a sample class that loads a file’s contents from a file system path and serves it to the user using a functional field. It was originally built for version 6.0 but should work on newer versions too:
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| import base64 | |
| from osv import osv, fields | |
| class my_class(osv.osv_memory): | |
| def get_file(self, cr, uid, ids, field_name=None, arg=None, context=None): | |
| result = dict.fromkeys(ids) | |
| for record_browse in self.browse(cr, uid, ids): | |
| f = open(record_browse.file_path) | |
| result[record_browse.id] = base64.encodestring(f.read()) | |
| f.close() | |
| return result | |
| _name = 'my.class' | |
| _columns = { | |
| 'file_path': fields.char('File Location', size=128), | |
| 'file': fields.function(get_file, method=True, store=False, type='binary', string="Download File"), | |
| } | |
| my_class() |
