Scruffy Cropper for Django
A reusable part to let users crop their uploaded images. On the front end, I'm using jCrop on the front end, PIL in back.
Usage
Let's say you have something like this:
class Foo(models.Model): photo = models.ImageField(...)
And you want users to be able to crop this photo without destroying the original.
Setting up
pip install this from git and add 'cropper' to settings.INSTALLED_APPS.
Make a template that handles the javascript and form side. I have an example, but I assume you're particular about UI... right?
The main view is cropper.views.create_crop, and while you could point a URL at it, because there's no security checks or logic ensuring what kind of fields you want to crop, it'd be smart to wrap it in your own view.
@login_required def crop(request): obj = Foo.objects.get(owner=request.user) next = reverse('foo.dashboard') # Other logic, maybe? # Args in order: request, app_label, model name, model instance id, field name, template, and the url to go post save or delete return create_crop(request, 'my_app_label', 'foo', obj.id, 'photo', 'my_crop_template.html', post_save_redirect=next)
Helpers
I've included some helper methods to help keep GFK dirt out of your code. They are...
from cropper.helpers import get_or_create_crop, get_cropped_image, delete_crop
They all take a model instance and a field name (as a string).
Meanwhile, back at the models.py
Your model should subclass CroppableImageMixin. It overrides save to wipe out any obsolete crops if you update one of your croppable images.
Now we're in a state where we may or may not have a cropped image... so let's add a property of the model to handle that.
from cropper.models import CroppableImageMixin from cropper.helpers import get_cropped_image class Foo(CroppableImageMixin): photo = models.ImageField(...) @property def cropped_photo(self): """ Return the photo, look for a cropped version first. """ crop = get_cropped_image(self, 'photo') # Returns None if there's no cropped version. return crop or self.photo
And then in the template - or anywhere else for that matter - foo.cropped_photo will always return what you want.
Other requirements
It also assumes you use easy-thumbnails. But anything (solr-thumbnails) that uses the same API should work fine.
Other Notes
- Always use get_or_create when dealing with crops. There should only be one on a field.
- PIL is required. I don't list it as a dependency because installing PIL on almost any OS is hairy, and if you haven't done it yet, the usual pip install probably won't help you anyway.
- On the front end, I have a submit button with the name 'delete', and another with 'save'. The view ignores there values, it just cares if 'delete' is in POST, so you can change the user-facing text at your discretion.
- Anything jcrop supports should work. There's a little bit of js at the bottom of the template that translates between PIL-acceptable coordinates and jcrop coordinates.
- The jcrop can't be applied to the image until ready state because the image being cropped has to be fully loaded, or the initial crop area winds up as 0x0.
- Responsive? Touch support? Absolutely.