Fixed #10497 -- Added a few time-related methods to the storage API. Thanks for the report and patch to Stephan Jaekel.

git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@14012 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37

django/core/files/storage.py

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ import os
 import errno
 import urlparse
 import itertools
+from datetime import datetime
 
 from django.conf import settings
 from django.core.exceptions import ImproperlyConfigured, SuspiciousOperation
@@ -120,6 +121,27 @@ class Storage(object):
         """
         raise NotImplementedError()
 
+    def accessed_time(self, name):
+        """
+        Returns the last accessed time (as datetime object) of the file
+        specified by name.
+        """
+        raise NotImplementedError()
+
+    def created_time(self, name):
+        """
+        Returns the creation time (as datetime object) of the file
+        specified by name.
+        """
+        raise NotImplementedError()
+
+    def modified_time(self, name):
+        """
+        Returns the last modified time (as datetime object) of the file
+        specified by name.
+        """
+        raise NotImplementedError()
+
 class FileSystemStorage(Storage):
     """
     Standard filesystem storage
@@ -220,6 +242,15 @@ class FileSystemStorage(Storage):
             raise ValueError("This file is not accessible via a URL.")
         return urlparse.urljoin(self.base_url, name).replace('\\', '/')
 
+    def accessed_time(self, name):
+        return datetime.fromtimestamp(os.path.getatime(self.path(name)))
+
+    def created_time(self, name):
+        return datetime.fromtimestamp(os.path.getctime(self.path(name)))
+
+    def modified_time(self, name):
+        return datetime.fromtimestamp(os.path.getmtime(self.path(name)))
+
 def get_storage_class(import_path=None):
     if import_path is None:
         import_path = settings.DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE

docs/ref/files/storage.txt

@@ -13,6 +13,33 @@ The local filesystem path where the file can be opened using Python's standard
 ``open()``. For storage systems that aren't accessible from the local
 filesystem, this will raise ``NotImplementedError`` instead.
 
+``Storage.accessed_time(name)``
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+.. versionadded:: 1.3
+
+Returns a ``datetime`` object containing the last accessed time of the file.
+For storage systems that aren't able to return the last accessed time, this
+will raise ``NotImplementedError`` instead.
+
+``Storage.created_time(name)``
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+.. versionadded:: 1.3
+
+Returns a ``datetime`` object containing the creation time of the file.
+For storage systems that aren't able to return the creation time, this
+will raise ``NotImplementedError`` instead.
+
+``Storage.modified_time(name)``
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+.. versionadded:: 1.3
+
+Returns a ``datetime`` object containing the last modified time. For storage
+systems that aren't able to return the last modified time, this will raise
+``NotImplementedError`` instead.
+
 ``Storage.size(name)``
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 

tests/regressiontests/file_storage/tests.py

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import tempfile
 import time
 import unittest
 from cStringIO import StringIO
+from datetime import datetime, timedelta
 from django.conf import settings
 from django.core.exceptions import SuspiciousOperation
 from django.core.files.base import ContentFile, File
@@ -108,6 +109,56 @@ class FileStorageTests(unittest.TestCase):
         self.storage.delete('storage_test')
         self.failIf(self.storage.exists('storage_test'))
 
+    def test_file_accessed_time(self):
+        """
+        File storage returns a Datetime object for the last accessed time of
+        a file.
+        """
+        self.failIf(self.storage.exists('test.file'))
+
+        f = ContentFile('custom contents')
+        f_name = self.storage.save('test.file', f)
+        atime = self.storage.accessed_time(f_name)
+
+        self.assertEqual(atime, datetime.fromtimestamp(
+            os.path.getatime(self.storage.path(f_name))))
+        self.assertTrue(datetime.now() - self.storage.accessed_time(f_name) < timedelta(seconds=2))
+        self.storage.delete(f_name)
+
+    def test_file_created_time(self):
+        """
+        File storage returns a Datetime object for the creation time of
+        a file.
+        """
+        self.failIf(self.storage.exists('test.file'))
+
+        f = ContentFile('custom contents')
+        f_name = self.storage.save('test.file', f)
+        ctime = self.storage.created_time(f_name)
+
+        self.assertEqual(ctime, datetime.fromtimestamp(
+            os.path.getctime(self.storage.path(f_name))))
+        self.assertTrue(datetime.now() - self.storage.created_time(f_name) < timedelta(seconds=2))
+
+        self.storage.delete(f_name)
+
+    def test_file_modified_time(self):
+        """
+        File storage returns a Datetime object for the last modified time of
+        a file.
+        """
+        self.failIf(self.storage.exists('test.file'))
+
+        f = ContentFile('custom contents')
+        f_name = self.storage.save('test.file', f)
+        mtime = self.storage.modified_time(f_name)
+
+        self.assertEqual(mtime, datetime.fromtimestamp(
+            os.path.getmtime(self.storage.path(f_name))))
+        self.assertTrue(datetime.now() - self.storage.modified_time(f_name) < timedelta(seconds=2))
+
+        self.storage.delete(f_name)
+
     def test_file_save_without_name(self):
         """
         File storage extracts the filename from the content object if no