I haven't tested this, but it seems like you could do it one of two
ways:
Define media root as a function in your settings.py. If you pass a
callable to the template, it will be called.
MEDIA_ROOTS = ['server1', 'server2', 'server3']
def MEDIA_ROOT():
from random import choice
return choice(MEDIA_ROOTS)
OR
Use a context processor to add MEDIA_ROOTS to the context and use the
random template tag.
{{ MEDIA_ROOTS|random }}
Steven's custom template tag works too.
Alex
On Jun 8, 7:32 am, Martin Siniawski <msi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Steve,
>
> Thanks for the answer.
>
> If I understand correctly your idea and code, each template would have
> only one value for the MEDIA_URL (randomly chosen from the array),
> right?
>
> What I was looking for was a way of distributing the value of the
> MEDIA_URL uniformly along the values of an array, in each template. So
> in a certain template the MEDIA_URL would have more than one value.
> Maybe if I set it as a callable (with the logic that choses the values
> inside it) that would work.
>
> I cannot quite understand why there isn't anymore people running into
> this issue.
>
> Best and thanks again for the answer,
> Martin
>
> On Jun 7, 10:46 am, Steven L Smith <ssmit...@naz.edu> wrote:
>
> > Hi Martin-
>
> > I don't know what the "official" answer would be, but you could write your
> > own
> > context processor that had something like:
>
> > from random import choice
> > MEDIA_URLS = 'static1.site.com', 'static2.site.com', 'static3.site.com' ]
> > def media(request):
> > return {'MEDIA_URL': choice(MEDIA_URLS)}
>
> > Then, in settings.py, include your custom context processor instead of the
> > one
> > built-in to to Django.
>
> > -Steve
>
> > ====================================
> > Steven L Smith, Web Developer
> > Department of Information Technology Services
> > Nazareth College of Rochester
> > 585-389-2085 | ssmit...@naz.eduhttp://www.naz.edu/pub/~ssmith46
> > ====================================
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