djangocms-static-ace

This app provides the ace source code editor files under the static files urls for the django cms admin interface (plugin modals essentially).

It is only needed if the project does not have internet access, or, if it prefers third party resources not to be loaded over the internet.

This app is a conditional dependency of, potentially amongst others, djangocms-frontend and djangocms-snippet.

Installation

The typical installation adds the [static-ace] optional argument to the app requiring the ace code editor, e.g., djangocms-frontend[static-ace]. If needed it can be installed explicitly by pip install djangocms-static-ace.

Finally, to make the static ace files available, djangocms_static_ace needs to be explicitly declared in the projects INSTALLED_APPS setting (in the project's settings.py):

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    ...,
    "djangocms_static_ace",
    ...,
]

Once made available, compliant apps will load the ace editor locally from static files.

Using the ace editor for your own plugins

To make your own plugin aware of djangocms-static-ace you will need to define a custom form for your plugin and add a Media class

from django.conf import settings as django_settings
from django import forms

from ... import MyFormModel


class MyPluginForm(forms.ModelForm):

    class Media:
        js = (
            "admin/vendor/ace/ace.js"
            if "djangocms_static_ace" in django_settings.INSTALLED_APPS
            else "https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/ace/1.9.6/ace.js",
        )

    class Meta:
        model = MyFormModel
        exclude = ()

Finally, you need to point your plugin's form attribute to MyPluginForm.

class MyPlugin(CMSPluginBase):
    ...
    form = MyPluginForm
    ...

Versions

Currently, django CMS uses ace 1.9.6