staticsitegen command fails for documents since commit 918f286

[pcraston]

The staticsitegen command uses django-medusa to generate a static version of the wagtail site. Since commit 918f286 wagtail uses StreamingHttpResponse to return Documents, which causes medusa to fail as it simply saves response.content to disk (https://github.com/ctxis/django-medusa/blob/master/django_medusa/renderers/disk.py#L56) and StreamingHttpResponse has no content attribute.

I've pushed a fix to our fork of django-medusa (https://github.com/ctxis/django-medusa) and submitted a pull request (mtigas/django-medusa#20). It iterates over the streaming_response attribute if response is streaming and saves the chunks to file, otherwise it uses response.content.

Until this PR has been merged, do you think it's worth adding a note to the staticsitegen section of the wagtail docs?

[atbug]

Yes, staticsitegen fails using release 1.0b1 and I think a note is necessary.

[tomdyson]

Thanks for raising this, @pcraston. We'll look at a fix; in the meantime could you do a PR for a note in the docs?

[atbug]

I downloaded the zip from (https://github.com/ctxis/django-medusa) and copied the module to a fresh started project mysite. But I still got the following error:

Chongs-MacBook-Air:mysite chongwang$ python manage.py staticsitegen
Skipping app 'mysite'... (No 'renderers.py')
Skipping app 'django.contrib.admin'... (No 'renderers.py')
Skipping app 'django.contrib.auth'... (No 'renderers.py')
Skipping app 'django.contrib.contenttypes'... (No 'renderers.py')
Skipping app 'django.contrib.sessions'... (No 'renderers.py')
Skipping app 'django.contrib.messages'... (No 'renderers.py')
Skipping app 'django.contrib.staticfiles'... (No 'renderers.py')
Skipping app 'compressor'... (No 'renderers.py')
Skipping app 'taggit'... (No 'renderers.py')
Skipping app 'modelcluster'... (No 'renderers.py')
Skipping app 'wagtail.wagtailcore'... (No 'renderers.py')
Skipping app 'wagtail.wagtailadmin'... (No 'renderers.py')
Skipping app 'wagtail.wagtaildocs'... (No 'renderers.py')
Skipping app 'wagtail.wagtailsnippets'... (No 'renderers.py')
Skipping app 'wagtail.wagtailusers'... (No 'renderers.py')
Skipping app 'wagtail.wagtailsites'... (No 'renderers.py')
Skipping app 'wagtail.wagtailimages'... (No 'renderers.py')
Skipping app 'wagtail.wagtailembeds'... (No 'renderers.py')
Skipping app 'wagtail.wagtailsearch'... (No 'renderers.py')
Skipping app 'wagtail.wagtailredirects'... (No 'renderers.py')
Skipping app 'wagtail.wagtailforms'... (No 'renderers.py')
Found renderers for 'wagtail.contrib.wagtailmedusa'...
Skipping app 'core'... (No 'renderers.py')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "manage.py", line 10, in <module>
    execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 385, in execute_from_command_line
    utility.execute()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 377, in execute
    self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 288, in run_from_argv
    self.execute(*args, **options.__dict__)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 338, in execute
    output = self.handle(*args, **options)
  File "/Users/chongwang/Workspace/test/mysite/django_medusa/management/commands/staticsitegen.py", line 17, in handle
    r.generate()
  File "/Users/chongwang/Workspace/test/mysite/django_medusa/renderers/base.py", line 69, in generate
    self.render_path(path)
  File "/Users/chongwang/Workspace/test/mysite/django_medusa/renderers/base.py", line 65, in render_path
    raise NotImplementedError
NotImplementedError

environment:
python 2.7.9
wagtail 1.0b1
django 1.7.7

[davecranwell]

We've agreed to investigate ways to make work without medusa patch.

See also #1176

[kaedroho]

This can now be worked around by setting the SENDFILE_BACKEND setting to sendfile.backends.simple.

https://github.com/torchbox/wagtail/blob/40092e18526d59c8ca0966743de7f93d14a8304c/docs/contrib/staticsitegen.rst#installing-django-medusa