When returning a Response from django REST API that contains a binary file, you may encounter an issue:
UnicodeDecodeError: ‘utf-8’ codec can’t decode byte in position 11: invalid start byte
Tag: django
Sometimes you need to accept a file from a user, and you don’t want to use django Forms. The details come down to how many files you need to accept and do you know the names of the files.
If the file is from your app (or frontend) and you expect it you’ll know the file name, because you named it. But if it is a user selected file the name will be unknown.
You have a legacy database in your django application, but created models for it. At first, they were unmanaged, but then you realized that it’d be easier for everyone if django handled the whole database. Now you’re left with a bunch of fields having db_column set and are required to change the field name and also the column name in the database.