Opened 7 years ago

Closed 5 years ago

#28604 closed Cleanup/optimization (fixed)

Prevent ManifestStaticFilesStorage from leaving behind intermediate files

Reported by: Ed Morley Owned by: Nathan Gaberel
Component: contrib.staticfiles Version: dev
Severity: Normal Keywords: ManifestStaticFilesStorage, HashedFilesMixin
Cc: Triage Stage: Ready for checkin
Has patch: yes Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no

Description

Currently when using ManifestStaticFilesStorage, collectstatic generates duplicate versions of some files.

For example looking at the output for contrib.admin for Django 1.11.5, there is:

admin/css/base.css
admin/css/base.5af66c1b1797.css
admin/css/base.6b517d0d5813.css
admin/css/base.31652d31b392.css

This is exacerbated when using something like WhiteNoise's CompressedStaticFilesMixin, which then has to spend extra time generating gzip and Brotli compressed versions of every file (or else try and work around it: ​evansd/whitenoise#147).

This was called unavoidable/working as intended according to:
https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/24452#comment:16
​https://github.com/django/django/pull/6507

However now that it's looking like CachedStaticFilesStorage will end up being removed (​mailing list thread; or at the very least we're discouraging people from using it, since it's buggy in several scenarios) - the intermediate files needn't be left behind.

Even before CachedStaticFilesStorage ends up being removed, we could perhaps add a keep_intermediate_files property to HashedFilesMixin, that is set to False for CachedStaticFilesStorage and True for ManifestStaticFilesStorage, allowing us to fix the latter in the meantime.

Change History (6)

comment:1 by Tim Graham, 7 years ago

Summary: Adjust HashedFilesMixin so it doesn't leave intermediate files behind for ManifestStaticFilesStorage → Prevent ManifestStaticFilesStorage from leaving behind intermediate files
Triage Stage: Unreviewed → Accepted
Type: Bug → Cleanup/optimization

comment:4 by Nathan Gaberel, 6 years ago

Owner: set to Nathan Gaberel
Status: new → assigned

comment:5 by Nathan Gaberel, 6 years ago

Has patch: set

​PR

comment:6 by Mariusz Felisiak, 5 years ago

Needs tests: set

comment:7 by Mariusz Felisiak, 5 years ago

Needs tests: unset
Triage Stage: Accepted → Ready for checkin

comment:8 by Mariusz Felisiak <felisiak.mariusz@…>, 5 years ago

Resolution: → fixed
Status: assigned → closed

In b27c9c95:

Fixed #28604 -- Prevented ManifestStaticFilesStorage from leaving intermediate files.

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