#18225: Staticfiles template tag does not fail silently
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Reporter: bouke | Owner: moritzs
Type: Bug | Status: closed
Component: contrib.staticfiles | Version: 1.4
Severity: Normal | Resolution: wontfix
Keywords: | Triage Stage: Accepted
Has patch: 1 | Needs documentation: 0
Needs tests: 0 | Patch needs improvement: 0
Easy pickings: 1 | UI/UX: 0
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Comment (by anon0405@…):
It would be nice if there were a setting that toggled whether this fails
loudly or silently -- often it is better to serve an html file with broken
formatting (missing css), missing functionality (missing js), or missing
niceties (missing .ico) than to throw up a server error and prevent any
information from reaching the end user.
Especially where the behavior of {% static %} is explicitly to not raise
errors in development, the current behavior creates time bombs that are
out of step with the rest of django's template error philosophy -- fail
silently whenever possible.
Two options are:
* {% static 'file/path.stuff' True %} -- passing an optional parameter of
whether to fail silently, so this can be turned on/off as needed
* STATIC_TAG_FAILS_SILENTLY=True -- an option in settings.py
If there isn't a way to make it fail silently in production, then the
errors should somehow be raised in DEV so they are caught and fixed.
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