@import doesn't find files from STATICFILES_DIRS

[deshipu]

I'm probably doing something wrong, because this is what django-pyscss is supposed to do, but I can't get it to work with STATICFILES_DIRS. Long story short, we have removed our bootstrap scss files from our repository, and packaged them in a separate packaged, which we then import in settings.py and add the directory with all the files to STATICFILES_DIRS with correct prefix. Django-pyscss fails to find those files. It also fails to report the failure and just behaves as if everything went fine -- until you try to use any of the variables defined in those files.

Here is a link to the patch with the issue: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/116583/

I will prepare a minimal Django app that demonstrates the problem.

[deshipu]

Hmm, seems like my minimal example works just fine. There must be some other problem.

[rockymeza]

Hi @deshipu,

If I remember correctly, django-pyscss will log a warning if it can't find a file to import. If you turn up the logging level to DEBUG, you can also see the search paths that it's doing for the imports.

I wish I could throw exceptions, but I wanted to keep the style that PyScss had.

[deshipu]

Thank you for the advice, I will try it again tomorrow. You guys are great with the quick responses.

[deshipu]

All I'm getting is:

File to import not found or unreadable: '/bootstrap/scss/bootstrap' (<string u'// bootstrap overrides:\n$icon-font-path: "../../bo'...>:0)

But if I go to http://myserver/static/scss/bootstrap.scss I get the file correctly...

I will investigate further...

[gavinwahl]

Are there any DEBUG level messages? _find_source_file logs the paths it's searching.

[deshipu]

Well, it shows all the possible filename extensions, but those are not absolute filesystem paths, so I have no way of verifying that it looks in the right directory.

I noticed that it works fine if the prefix in STATICFILES_DIRS is set to "" (empty string). This is most likely some interaction with our particular setup or one of the libraries that we use -- I wrote a small Django app that works correctly even with non-empty prefixes.

[deshipu]

I finally have a working minimal example that reproduces the issue, but I still don't see how to fix it. The code is here: https://github.com/deshipu/django-pyscss-test

To see the problem:

git clone https://github.com/deshipu/django-pyscss-test
cd django-pyscss-test
virtualenv --system-site-packages venv
venv/bin/python manage.py runserver
xdg-open http://127.0.0.1:8080

The text should be red, but is not. You can also run:

venv/bin/python manage.py compress --force

To see that the generated css has no rules.

The interesting part is that if you remove "blue" both from the @import and from STATICFILES_DIRS, it works fine.

[deshipu]

I just discovered that it also works when you remove "blue" just from the @import and leave it in STATICFILES_DIRS. Looks like django-pyscss is just ignoring those prefixes.