import os from django.contrib.admin.widgets import AdminFileWidget from django.utils.safestring import mark_safe from django.conf import settings def thumbnail(image_path): absolute_url = os.path.join(settings.IMAGES_URL, image_path[7:]) print(absolute_url) return '%s' % (absolute_url, image_path) class AdminImageWidget(AdminFileWidget): """ A FileField Widget that displays an image instead of a file path if the current file is an image. """ def render(self, name, value, attrs=None): output = [] file_name = str(value) help_text = '' if file_name: file_path = '%s' % (file_name) if attrs['id'] == 'id_thumbnail': help_text = '160 wide' if attrs['id'] == 'id_image': help_text = '205px high' output.append('%s%s' % (help_text, file_path, thumbnail(file_name))) output.append(super(AdminFileWidget, self).render(name, value, attrs)) return mark_safe(''.join(output))