ContentFile

A File-like object that takes just raw content, rather than an actual file.

Attributes

Attribute	Type	Description
size	int	The total length of the raw content in bytes or characters, used to track the file size and cleared upon write operations.

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Constructor

Signature

def ContentFile(
    content: str or bytes,
    name: str = None
) - > null

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
content	str or bytes	The raw content to be stored in the file-like object.
name	str = None	The name of the file.

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Methods

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open()

@classmethod
def open(
    mode: string = null
) - > [ContentFile](contentfile.md?sid=django_core_files_base_contentfile)

Resets the internal stream pointer to the beginning and returns the file-like object for reading or writing.

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
mode	string = null	The mode in which the file is opened, though it is ignored in this implementation as the stream is already initialized

Returns

Type	Description
[ContentFile](contentfile.md?sid=django_core_files_base_contentfile)	The instance itself, with the stream position reset to zero

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close()

@classmethod
def close() - > null

Performs a no-op to satisfy the file-like interface without closing the underlying memory stream.

Returns

Type	Description
null

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write()

@classmethod
def write(
    data: string|bytes
) - > integer

Writes data to the underlying stream and clears any cached file size to ensure consistency.

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
data	`string	bytes`

Returns

Type	Description
integer	The number of bytes or characters written to the stream

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