[Answer]-Django build_absolute_uri throwing NoReverseMatch error

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Well, I did not find to solution to why it doesn’t work, but I did find a solution that does work. Hopefully this can help others or it may give a clue to someone why the original method failed.

I made the following changes:

Template:

{% for fn in jpg_names %}
  <img src="/tools/returnImage/{{ fn }}"> 
{% endfor %}

URLS:

urlpatterns = patterns('ri.tools.views',
url(r'^$', 'index', name="index"),
url(r'defineParameters','defineParameters',name='defineParameters'),
url(r'downloadcsv','downloadcsv',name='downloadcsv'),
url(r'downloadpdf','downloadpdf',name='downloadpdf'),
url(r'downloadZipFile','downloadZipFile',name='downloadZipFile'),
url(r'returnImage/.*','returnImage',name='returnImage'),)

Views:

def returnImage(request):
   path = "/opt/local/var/media/facstool/"
   _, fn = os.path.split(request.META['PATH_INFO'])
   f = open(str(path)+fn,'rb')
   img = f.read()
   f.close()
   os.remove(str(path)+fn)
   response = HttpResponse(img,mimetype='image/jpeg')
   return response

Basically this adds the filename to the img tag, then strips off the filename in the view, opens it on the server, reads it into a variable, deletes the original file and returns the image. It is the behavior I wanted, I just don’t understand why the OP wouldn’t have worked.

👤talonsensei

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