Hi, I'm currently migrating one of my apps to use the new contrib.staticfiles module in Django 1.3.
>From the documentation I can see there's two ways of referring to static files: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/static-files/ 1. Use {{ STATIC_URL}} 2. Use {% load static %}, then {% get_static_prefix %} However, option 1 seems to only work if you're using RequestContext - the easiest way of doing this seems to be using Generic (Class-based) Views. Currently, I'm using a fairly simple custom view that returns a QuerySet of "Article" objects matching certain date/filtering criteria, then passes it to render_to_response. The start-date and entry-date are passed as part of the URL ie.. http://server.com/report_foo/2011-01-01/to/2010-01-05 def report_foo(request, start_date, end_date=None): if end_date: article_list = Article.objects.filter(in_daily_briefing=True).filter(entry_date__gte=start_date).filter(entry_date__lte=end_date).order_by('category', 'headline') end_date = datetime.datetime.strptime(end_date, '%Y-%m-%d') else: article_list = Article.objects.filter(in_daily_briefing=True).filter(entry_date=start_date).order_by('category', 'headline') return render_to_response('report_foo.html', {'article_list': article_list, 'start_date': datetime.datetime.strptime(start_date, '%Y-%m-%d'), 'end_date': end_date}) First question - what is the best way to migrate this to a generic view? I was thinking: from django.views.generic improt TemplateView class ReportFooView(TemplateView): if end_date: article_list = Article.objects.filter(in_daily_briefing=True).filter(entry_date__gte=start_date).filter(entry_date__lte=end_date).order_by('category', 'headline') end_date = datetime.datetime.strptime(end_date, '%Y-%m-%d') else: article_list = Article.objects.filter(in_daily_briefing=True).filter(entry_date=start_date).order_by('category', 'headline') params = {'article_list': article_list, 'start_date': datetime.datetime.strptime(start_date, '%Y-%m-%d'), 'end_date': end_date} template_name = "report_foo.html" Or is there a smarter way of doing this with the provided mixins/generics views? And now my second question - I can use STATIC_URL or get_static_url in my template files - but how do I use these values in my CSS files? I.e. my CSS files need to reference assets stored as part of staticfiles. Cheers, Victor -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
