Support to import/export user uploaded data (from the default media storage)

[semente]

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[pconerly]

Do you mean image and files for this?

It's an interesting and tough task-- b/c it requires going beyond django's built-in dumpdata and loaddata.

[semente]

Yep, I mean the media files that usually are stored in the MEDIA_ROOT directory of the file system. But actually I think we should consider that the user might be using a different backend for storage.

[jaap3]

Maybe limit support to storage backends that support the listdir and path. That would make implementing this a bit easier.

Since user uploaded media might be extremely large you'd also need to use a streaming response to which you would write a zipfile.

Not sure if this is all possible, but those would probably be the building blocks.

It would also be nice to be able to pick which directories/files to download. So you can pick and choose what you need.

[semente]

@jaap3 👍

[jaap3]

Got a implementation of dumping the defaultstorage to a tgz file going in a branch on my clone https://github.com/jaap3/django-smuggler/tree/dump-storage

Creating zipfiles as a stream is too hard unless I use an external dependency, so I decided not to support it.

Haven't worked on loading dumps yet. A thing to remember is to make sure they are really only extracted into the storage dir.

Since StreamingHttpResponse isn't available on Django 1.4 this would mean dropping support for 1.4.