Read content of Binary fields

Question

Hi,
How can I read content of binary field in Odoo8.
I added a fileds.Binary in my model and can browse file in view but I can't read It content.
Please to give an exemple about how to browse a file and read It content in Odoo8 ?

Virali · Accepted Answer

hii Omar OUHARI ,
below code help to read content of file after browse. and file is my fields.binary field. hope so this will help you.
*base64.encodestring(args.get('file').read())*

Lyubomir Petkov · Answer

Hello Omar,
I see that your post is from 2015, but I had the same problem in 2019  :)
However I found a solution and I'm sharing it for someone who is experiencing the same issue.
In *Ir_http.py* there is a method  called *binary_content*, which returns a binary field content and some other info. You can use it in any model or controller with the following import:
*from odoo.addons.web.controllers.main import binary_content*
* Tested on Odoo 11 Community version
*​*Regards,
Lyubo.
​

DaSchloz · Answer

Hi,
this is what worked for me:
with io.BytesIO(base64.b64decode(self.binary_field_name)) as f:
# do stuff with the contents here as if it were a file     Best regards, David

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