Opened 6 days ago
Last modified 4 days ago
#35868 closed Bug
'collectstatic' management command inappropriately eating AttributeError exceptions — at Initial Version
Reported by: | Brett G | Owned by: | |
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Component: | contrib.staticfiles | Version: | 5.0 |
Severity: | Normal | Keywords: | |
Cc: | Triage Stage: | Ready for checkin | |
Has patch: | yes | Needs documentation: | no |
Needs tests: | no | Patch needs improvement: | no |
Easy pickings: | yes | UI/UX: | no |
Description
Recently, Django 5.0 removed the django.utils.timezone.utc
alias to datetime.timezone.utc
.
I've written a custom file storage class that implements a get_modified_time
method which, predictably, used the django.utils.timezone.utc
alias.
The code in 'django/contrib/staticfiles/management/commands/collectstatic.py' reads as follows:
try: # When was the target file modified last time? target_last_modified = self.storage.get_modified_time(prefixed_path) except (OSError, NotImplementedError, AttributeError): # The storage doesn't support get_modified_time() or failed pass else: try: # When was the source file modified last time? source_last_modified = source_storage.get_modified_time(path) except (OSError, NotImplementedError, AttributeError): pass
I assume the exception catch there is meant to ignore AttributeError
exceptions from custom file storage classes that do not implement get_modified_time
. This is inappropriate - custom file storage classes can be written by users, and the get_modified_time
method may raise AttributeError
for a completely unrelated reason.
The net effect of this is that when collectstatic
was run, all static files were copied, regardless of modification time, as collectstatic
silently ignored this error. This was difficult to pin down.
Checking for the presence of a get_modified_time
attribute using duck typing (eg. hasattr(self.storage, 'get_modified_time')
) may be more appropriate than eating such a generic exception.