Opened 5 weeks ago
Last modified 5 weeks ago
#35822 closed Bug
App name hard-coded in collectstatic command forces name of overriding app name to be 'staticfiles' — at Version 1
| Reported by: | fishfin | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | contrib.staticfiles | Version: | 5.1 |
| Severity: | Normal | Keywords: | collectstatic |
| Cc: | fishfin | Triage Stage: | Unreviewed |
| Has patch: | no | Needs documentation: | no |
| Needs tests: | no | Patch needs improvement: | no |
| Easy pickings: | no | UI/UX: | no |
Description (last modified by )
In django.contrib.staticfiles.management.commands.collectstatic, Command.set_options(), there is:
ignore_patterns += apps.get_app_config("staticfiles").ignore_patterns
This looks for config class StaticFilesConfig in the app trying to overwrite ignore_patterns. Because Django forces the class name to match config name (in this case StaticFiles, the name of the app is forced to be staticfiles, it cannot be anything else. Either the hard-coding in collectstatic command set_options() should be changed, or document at https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/5.1/ref/contrib/staticfiles/#customizing-the-ignored-pattern-list should be changed for the example which shows the Config can be named MyStaticFilesConfig, which is clearly cannot be.
I have just started on Django (3-4 months) and I have looked at number of places, this info is missing, hence raising this ticket.