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Jinja2 extension to append modified timestamp for cachebreaking for flask!
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import os | |
#from django.conf import settings | |
from flask import current_app as app | |
from jinja2 import nodes # it is here, don't believe pycharm | |
from jinja2.exceptions import TemplateSyntaxError | |
from jinja2.ext import Extension | |
class AssetExtension(Extension): | |
'''Jinja2 extension to append modified timestamp for cachebreaking | |
Add extension in flask: | |
from path.to.jinja_asset import AssetExtension | |
# ... | |
app.jinja_env.add_extension('path.to.jinja_asset.AssetExtension') | |
Usage: {% asset '/some/path.js' %} | |
Returns: `/static/some/path.js?1320713645`''' | |
tags = set(['asset']) | |
def parse(self, parser): | |
stream = parser.stream | |
tag = next(stream) | |
if stream.current.test('string'): | |
path = parser.parse_primary() | |
else: | |
raise TemplateSyntaxError(''' | |
"%s" requires path to asset file''' % tag.value, tag.lineno) | |
while not parser.stream.current.type == 'block_end': | |
next(parser.stream) | |
result = self.call_method('_build_url', args=[path]) | |
return nodes.Output([nodes.MarkSafe(result)]).set_lineno(tag.lineno) | |
def _build_url(self, path): | |
file_path = '%s%s' % (app.static_folder, path) | |
try: | |
modified_timestamp = int(os.path.getmtime(file_path)) | |
except: | |
modified_timestamp = '' | |
href = '%s%s' % (app.static_url_path, path) | |
if modified_timestamp: | |
href += '?%s' % modified_timestamp | |
return href | |
asset = AssetExtension |
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Updated to work with python 3.