Fixed #15281 -- Made the static view use an iterator when serving a f…

…ile, effectively making this less of a memory hog. Also use the appropriate attributes of the stat object instead of indexes. Thanks for the initial patch, FunkyBob and aaugustin.

git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@15701 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37

django/core/servers/basehttp.py

@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 from django.utils.http import http_date
 from django.utils._os import safe_join
 from django.views import static
+from django.views.static import FileWrapper # for backwards compatibility, #15281
 
 from django.contrib.staticfiles import handlers
 
@@ -32,30 +33,6 @@
 class WSGIServerException(Exception):
     pass
 
-class FileWrapper(object):
-    """Wrapper to convert file-like objects to iterables"""
-
-    def __init__(self, filelike, blksize=8192):
-        self.filelike = filelike
-        self.blksize = blksize
-        if hasattr(filelike,'close'):
-            self.close = filelike.close
-
-    def __getitem__(self,key):
-        data = self.filelike.read(self.blksize)
-        if data:
-            return data
-        raise IndexError
-
-    def __iter__(self):
-        return self
-
-    def next(self):
-        data = self.filelike.read(self.blksize)
-        if data:
-            return data
-        raise StopIteration
-
 # Regular expression that matches `special' characters in parameters, the
 # existence of which force quoting of the parameter value.
 tspecials = re.compile(r'[ \(\)<>@,;:\\"/\[\]\?=]')

django/views/static.py

@@ -7,14 +7,41 @@
 import os
 import posixpath
 import re
-import stat
 import urllib
 
 from django.template import loader
 from django.http import Http404, HttpResponse, HttpResponseRedirect, HttpResponseNotModified
+
 from django.template import Template, Context, TemplateDoesNotExist
 from django.utils.http import http_date, parse_http_date
 
+
+class FileWrapper(object):
+    """
+    Wrapper to convert file-like objects to iterables
+    """
+    def __init__(self, filelike, blksize=8192):
+        self.filelike = filelike
+        self.blksize = blksize
+        if hasattr(filelike,'close'):
+            self.close = filelike.close
+
+    def __getitem__(self,key):
+        data = self.filelike.read(self.blksize)
+        if data:
+            return data
+        raise IndexError
+
+    def __iter__(self):
+        return self
+
+    def next(self):
+        data = self.filelike.read(self.blksize)
+        if data:
+            return data
+        raise StopIteration
+
+
 def serve(request, path, document_root=None, show_indexes=False):
     """
     Serve static files below a given point in the directory structure.
@@ -56,12 +83,11 @@ def serve(request, path, document_root=None, show_indexes=False):
     mimetype, encoding = mimetypes.guess_type(fullpath)
     mimetype = mimetype or 'application/octet-stream'
     if not was_modified_since(request.META.get('HTTP_IF_MODIFIED_SINCE'),
-                              statobj[stat.ST_MTIME], statobj[stat.ST_SIZE]):
+                              statobj.st_mtime, statobj.st_size):
         return HttpResponseNotModified(mimetype=mimetype)
-    contents = open(fullpath, 'rb').read()
-    response = HttpResponse(contents, mimetype=mimetype)
-    response["Last-Modified"] = http_date(statobj[stat.ST_MTIME])
-    response["Content-Length"] = len(contents)
+    response = HttpResponse(FileWrapper(open(fullpath, 'rb')), mimetype=mimetype)
+    response["Last-Modified"] = http_date(statobj.st_mtime)
+    response["Content-Length"] = statobj.st_size
     if encoding:
         response["Content-Encoding"] = encoding
     return response

tests/regressiontests/views/tests/static.py

@@ -26,10 +26,18 @@ def test_serve(self):
         for filename in media_files:
             response = self.client.get('/views/%s/%s' % (self.prefix, filename))
             file_path = path.join(media_dir, filename)
-            self.assertEquals(open(file_path).read(), response.content)
-            self.assertEquals(len(response.content), int(response['Content-Length']))
+            content = str(response.content)
+            self.assertEquals(open(file_path).read(), content)
+            self.assertEquals(len(content), int(response['Content-Length']))
             self.assertEquals(mimetypes.guess_type(file_path)[1], response.get('Content-Encoding', None))
 
+    def test_serve_does_not_buffer_files(self):
+        "The static view uses an iterator - see #15281"
+        response = self.client.get('/views/%s/file.txt' % self.prefix)
+        # response objects can't be used as file-like objects when they are
+        # initialized with an iterator
+        self.assertRaises(Exception, response.write, 'more text')
+
     def test_unknown_mime_type(self):
         response = self.client.get('/views/%s/file.unknown' % self.prefix)
         self.assertEquals('application/octet-stream', response['Content-Type'])
@@ -68,9 +76,9 @@ def test_invalid_if_modified_since(self):
         response = self.client.get('/views/%s/%s' % (self.prefix, file_name),
                                    HTTP_IF_MODIFIED_SINCE=invalid_date)
         file = open(path.join(media_dir, file_name))
-        self.assertEquals(file.read(), response.content)
-        self.assertEquals(len(response.content),
-                          int(response['Content-Length']))
+        content = str(response.content)
+        self.assertEquals(file.read(), content)
+        self.assertEquals(len(content), int(response['Content-Length']))
 
     def test_invalid_if_modified_since2(self):
         """Handle even more bogus If-Modified-Since values gracefully
@@ -82,10 +90,10 @@ def test_invalid_if_modified_since2(self):
         invalid_date = ': 1291108438, Wed, 20 Oct 2010 14:05:00 GMT'
         response = self.client.get('/views/%s/%s' % (self.prefix, file_name),
                                    HTTP_IF_MODIFIED_SINCE=invalid_date)
+        content = str(response.content)
         file = open(path.join(media_dir, file_name))
-        self.assertEquals(file.read(), response.content)
-        self.assertEquals(len(response.content),
-                          int(response['Content-Length']))
+        self.assertEquals(file.read(), content)
+        self.assertEquals(len(content), int(response['Content-Length']))
 
 
 class StaticHelperTest(StaticTests):