Django staticfiles static tempalate helper equivalent in view (Python code)

Question

I have a Django app which uses ManifestStaticFilesStorage, in production static assets are served via a CDN and references to them in templates are correctly set, e.g.

Template:

{% load staticfiles %}
<script type="text/javascript" src="{% static 'some.js' %}"></script>

Rendered HTML:

     <script type="text/javascript" src="https://example.com/some.abc123.js"></script>

Is it possible to get the fully-qualified URL to a static asset in a view? I would like to have a view that redirects to a static asset on my CDN.

Something like:

import django.http HttpResponseRedirect

def my_lovely_view(request):
    static_asset_url = static('some.js') # does this fn exist?
    # static_asset_url == 'https://example.com/some.abc123.js'
    return HttpResponseRedirect(static_asset_url)

Of course I could hardcode this but then I loose the automatic versioning provided by ManifestStaticFileStorage — KX68C4qxM51mtdzex7O8iMPU, Jun 22 '17 at 10:05

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 22 '17 at 10:09

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from django.contrib.staticfiles.templatetags.staticfiles import static

static_asset_url = static('x.jpg')

try this

answered Jun 22 '17 at 10:09

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