Evaggelos Balaskas - System Engineer

I’ve started a new project with bottle.py and had some hiccups with static files and templates.

My project layout is (something) like that:

/

    app.wsgi
    bottle.py

    static/
        static/css
            static/css/bootstrap-theme.min.css
            static/css/bootstrap.min.css
        static/img
            static/img/logo.png
        static/js
            static/js/bootstrap.min.js
            static/js/npm.js
            static/js/tab.js
            static/js/jquery-1.12.1.min.js

    views/
        views/search.tpl
        views/index.tpl
        views/header.tpl
        views/footer.tpl

my app.wsgi is looking something like (dynamic routes & templates):

@bottle.route('/')
@bottle.route('/< action >/< name >')
def main(action='/',name=None):
    if ( action == '/' ) :
        return template("index", title=" some title ")
    else:
        return template(action, title=" some title ", name=name)

application = bottle.default_app()

I can translate every REST request to a new template and use AJAX inside the templates.

But what-about static files like stylesheets and javascripts ?

eg.

< script src="jquery-1.12.1.min.js"> < / script>
< img src="logo_hp.png" >

When working with dynamic routes (or any routes in bottle) unless you are using the main app.wsgi everything else will be translated to something like:

GET /search/jquery-1.12.1.min.js
GET /view/jquery-1.12.1.min.js
etc

If you noticed the layout then somehow we need to map all static files (css,js,images) to our static folder. We can map static files from "/" with the code below:

@bottle.get('< filename:re:.*.js >')
def static_js(filename):
    return static_file(filename, root='static/js')

@bottle.get(' < filename:re:.*.css > ')
def static_css(filename):
    return static_file(filename, root='static/css')

@bottle.get(' < filename:re:.*.png > ')
def static_img(filename):
    return static_file(filename, root='static/img')

Ok, that worked for the initial route (index page) but what about all the other templates & requests?

The solution was really (really) very very simply, even if it took me a couple hours to figure it out!!

I just needed to add a forward slash in front of every static file:

< script src="/jquery-1.12.1.min.js"> < / script>
< img src="/logo.png" >

and the GET request becomes:

"GET /jquery-1.12.1.min.js

and we can now route the static files to our static file directory.