I'm having a problem with Dajaxice and how it appears to create a custom javascript file to be used for ajax. When one runs manage.py collectstatic with Dajaxice installed, it creates a custom javascript file. This post references this issue as well. In my case running:
python manage.py findstatic dajaxice/dajaxice.core.js
gives:
Found 'dajaxice/dajaxice.core.js' here:
/private/var/folders/dp/yw0xd2f52yg7qmt992s72_9r0000gn/T/tmpRWRAGT
when run locally. The problem I have is that when pairing this with django-storages and boot to serve static files from Amazon S3, it blows up because that file is created referencing an absolute path instead of a relative path (I think it's boto that doesn't implement something that django-storages doesn't like). The error looks like this:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "manage.py", line 10, in <module>
execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)
File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 443, in execute_from_command_line
utility.execute()
File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 382, in execute
self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv)
File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 196, in run_from_argv
self.execute(*args, **options.__dict__)
File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 232, in execute
output = self.handle(*args, **options)
File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 371, in handle
return self.handle_noargs(**options)
File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/contrib/staticfiles/management/commands/collectstatic.py", line 163, in handle_noargs
collected = self.collect()
File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/contrib/staticfiles/management/commands/collectstatic.py", line 113, in collect
handler(path, prefixed_path, storage)
File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/contrib/staticfiles/management/commands/collectstatic.py", line 290, in copy_file
source_path = source_storage.path(path)
File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/files/storage.py", line 82, in path
raise NotImplementedError("This backend doesn't support absolute paths.")
(in this case, I'm deploying on Heroku, which is why I can't just copy the created file manually to a static location and reference it). Is there a way around this? Can I make Dajaxice put the generated file in a relative path location? Or can I get around it by forcing django-storages/boto to accept an absolute path? Or if all else fails, is there an easy way to pre-generate the file short of uninstalling all my S3 dependencies when I collectstatic, copying the file over and forcing Dajax to stop looking for the generated file?
Any help appreciated.
