django-cachebuster 0.1

Django 1.3 ready cache busting app

Overview

django-cachebuster is a Django app containing two template tags: static and media. Each tag will use the file last modified timestamp by default to ‘bust’ web browser file caches. static is meant for your site’s JavaScript, CSS and standard images. media is intended for user uploaded content like avatars, videos and other files.

Description

All of the existing file cache busting techniques seem to be Django versions 1.2.x and lower oriented - meaning they don’t support the new django.contrib.staticfiles paradigm. This app addresses this functionality gap.

Additionally, there are some optimizations (see Advanced Settings below) that can be enabled to minimize file modification date disk reads.

Requirements

• Python 2.6 (May work with prior versions, but untested - please report)

• Django 1.2.x, 1.3.x (May work with prior versions, but untested - please report)

Installation

1. Copy or symlink the cachebuster package into your django project directory or install it by running one of the following commands:

   python setup.py install

   or

   pip install django-cachebuster

   or

   easy_install django-cachebuster

2. Add cachebuster to your INSTALLED_APPS in your project’s settings.py module.

3. Use the {% static filename %} and {% media filename %} tags in your template files.

Advanced Settings

CACHEBUSTER_UNIQUE_STRING: optional; no default.

If CACHEBUSTER_UNIQUE_STRING is not set, the file’s last modified datetime will be used for cache-busting. To set it, you would mostly likely use a cachebuster detector; at the moment, there is a single detector available for git. It simply traverses the project’s path looking for the .git folder, and then extracts the current commit hash. The hash is cached and used for subsequent cache-busting. For example, in your settings.py:

from cachebuster.detectors import git
CACHEBUSTER_UNIQUE_STRING = git.unique_string()

or if you wanted it to be a short busting string:

from cachebuster.detectors import git
CACHEBUSTER_UNIQUE_STRING = git.unique_string()[:8]

Notes

Please feel free to send a pull request with fixes and in particular, additional detectors to improve the usefulness of this app. Maybe for svn, hg, etc?

Source

The latest source code can always be found here: github.com/jaddison/django-cachebuster

Credits

django-cachebuster is maintained by James Addison.

License

django-cachebuster is Copyright (c) 2011, James Addison. It is free software, and may be redistributed under the terms specified in the LICENSE file.

Questions, Comments, Concerns:

Feel free to open an issue here: github.com/jaddison/django-cachebuster/issues