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?
On Friday, March 10, 2017 at 7:35:25 AM UTC-5, 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)
> 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.
>
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