NEW Feature: Collect static order of directories searched. Possible upgrade inside FileSystemFinder.

[Radosław Orłowski]

Right now I'm working with Django 1.8.17 and What I'm trying to acomplish is simple override of static files.

STATICFILES_DIRS = (
        str(os.path.abspath(os.path.join(SITE_ROOT, 'static_new'))),
        str(os.path.abspath(os.path.join(SITE_ROOT, 'static'))),
)

STATICFILES_FINDERS = (
    'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
)

my thinking:
I have to sites that need different logo file.

Both directories static and static_new have images/logo.png, but this file is different.

I need to add logo from static_new and load rest of content from static (js, css. etc)
This would allow me to create folders with statics -- per site without changing urls and templates, just collect static would take images from another dir, other changes are made with  django.contrib.sites.models.get_current_site
Collect static works with first found but I have no way to define 'seach here first behavior'. Also development static and collectstatic don't seem to search for those files with same order (also I find them both unstable as once in a while logo is loaded from static_new and mostly from static)


Expected behavior:
when adding new folder to STATICFILES_FINDERS, I can somehow define order of folders static file finder will go through searching for this item either as alphabetic order or by explicit order. ('static',2),('static_new',1)
second behavior is similar to list_display and fieldsets in admin views, I would love to introduce here something like that.


Discussion open.

[Tim Graham]

Hi, I'm surprised if the search behavior is nondeterministic rather than searching STATICFILES_DIRS in order. If that's really the case, it seems like a bug. Can you point to the code that causes the nondeterminism?

[René Fleschenberg]

Hi Radosław,

On 03/10/2017 11:49 AM, Radosław Orłowski wrote:
> Right now I'm working with Django 1.8.17 and What I'm trying to
> acomplish is simple override of static files.
>
> STATICFILES_DIRS = (
> str(os.path.abspath(os.path.join(SITE_ROOT, 'static_new'))),
> str(os.path.abspath(os.path.join(SITE_ROOT, 'static'))),
> )
>
> STATICFILES_FINDERS = (
> 'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
> 'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
> )
>
> my thinking:
> I have to sites that need different logo file.
>
> Both directories static and static_new have images/logo.png, but this
> file is different.
>
> I need to add logo from static_new and load rest of content from static
> (js, css. etc)

You mentioned that you have two sites. Are you using the sites
framework? Then you should have a separate settings module for each
site, so you can just give them different settings:


```
# settings_site1.py
# site1 only uses files from ``static``.
SITE_ID = 1
STATIC_ROOT = '/var/static/site1'
STATICFILES_DIRS = (
os.path.abspath(os.path.join(SITE_ROOT, 'static')),
)


# settings_site2.py
# site2 uses files from ``static_new``, and falls back to ``static``
SITE_ID = 2
STATIC_ROOT = '/var/static/site2'
STATICFILES_DIRS = (
os.path.abspath(os.path.join(SITE_ROOT, 'static_new')),
os.path.abspath(os.path.join(SITE_ROOT, 'static')),
)



Regards,
René

--
René Fleschenberg

[Luke Plant]

Like Tim, I'm surprised if there is non-determinism in the order here - a quick look at the code shows the search is in the order specified in  STATICFILES_DIRS. Is it possible you are encountering browser caching effects, perhaps triggered by accessing both sites on 'localhost' locally?

Luke

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