I don't believe you can, although it should be possible to extend upload to provide that information. However, is there no header you can use in your filetype to detect it? -- James Taylor, Assistant Professor, Biology/CS, Emory University On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 10:51 PM, David Angot <davida@intersect.org.au> wrote:

Hi,

We are using a proprietary file format in some of our tools. I successfully added a new data type, but what I would like to do is to use the auto-detect when uploading the file, just based on the extension of the file.

My guess is I have to override the sniff() in the datatype class, and test for the extension ? Somethinkg like that :

if file.endswith('.extension123'): ...

But how do I get the original filename when it was uploaded ?

Thanks,

-- David

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