Support URLs that don't start with `/static/`

In template_tags.py#L19 a TODO says exactly that.

I’d like to tackle this one, as we need it in one of our projects.

Do you have any hints on how to do this? Introduce a config setting, and if present use that as a base url for static assets? Did you have any concrete plans/ideas on how to implement this?

I wonder if it would be a good idea to reuse django’s STATIC_ROOT related capabilities (or rather the collectstatic contrib to be exact) for that.

But this would somehow contradict the item on the roadmap (see #117) which states/asks, that other template engines than Django’s would be a nice feature.

[benjmin-r]

We went the route of implementing a simple plugin, that reads an optional config.json file and given that file contains a key named static_base_url sets the template variable STATIC_URL to the respective value.
This also allowed us to maintain most of our cactus v2 templates unchanged.

The following is the plugin code, which you are free to use as is.

import os
from cactus import config

INFO = {
    'name': 'CUSTOM_STATIC_URL',
    'description': 'Set STATIC_URL to value from config.json in project dir'
}

STATIC_URL_KEY = 'static_base_url'
conf = config.Config('config.json')

def preBuildPage(site, path, context, data):
    if conf.get(STATIC_URL_KEY):
        context.update({ 'STATIC_URL': conf.get(STATIC_URL_KEY) })
    else:
        context.update({ 'STATIC_URL': '/static' })
    return context, data

… and a sample config.json

{
    "static_base_url": "https://cdn.example.com/somepath"
}

I’ll close this issue, as I’ll not put any further work into it. Sorry, for keeping it open for so long, without any update.

[macedd]

The plugin does not work with the {% static %} tamplate tag