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22353	CachedStaticFilesMixin lags in updating hashed names of other static files referenced in CSS	woodlee	Marc Egli	"Procedure to replicate:

1. Be using staticfiles with CachedStaticFilesStorage.
2. Have a CSS file such as 'abc.css' which refers to an image file such as 'xyz.png' (via either ""url()"" or ""@import"").
3. Do an initial run of collectstatic. Observe correct substitution of the path to 'xyz.png' to its hashed name within abc.css.
4. Change the contents of xyz.png (maybe it's a sprites file... so changes aren't unheard of!).
5. Rerun collectstatic (without the --clear option).
6. Observe that abc.css still refers to the old hashed name of xyz.png; this is the bug.
7. Run collectstatic a third time.
8. Observe that abc.css now refers to the correct, newer hashed name of xyz.png.

I believe this is happening because during post_process, when the url_converter calls url() (see https://github.com/django/django/blob/1.6.2/django/contrib/staticfiles/storage.py#L195), url() gets the hashed name out of the staticfiles cache... which has not yet been updated with the new hashed-name value for the image file, since said cache updating doesn't happen until the end of post_process.

I think the best solution may be to add a kwarg of 'use_cache=True' to url(), which url_converter can set to False when it calls url(). When False, the cache will simply be evaded (not updated) and hashed_name can be called directly. In this way, url_converter is always substituting to the most up-to-date hash, but actually updating the cache is still delayed until the end of post_process, which seems desirable since I think updating that cache should happen as closely as possible in time to the moment when the new static assets are placed wherever they'll be served from (bit of a race condition, there).

Unrelated: it would be nice to warn in documentation that if you define a separate 'staticfiles' cache in CACHES, it might be desirable to set its TIMEOUT option to None. I kept wondering why lookups were coming back empty and eventually realized it was because my staticfiles cache was using the default 5 minute timeout."	Bug	closed	contrib.staticfiles	1.6	Normal	duplicate		cmawebsite@…	Accepted	1	0	0	1	0	0