Force Django ManifestStaticFilesStorage to always return urls with hashes

Question

By default, ManifestStaticFilesStorage only returns urls with hashes in them when DEBUG=False. I want my development environment to be as close to production as possible, but I do need to set debug to False for a couple of things during development. Is there a way to tell ManifestStaticFilesStorage to always give me the url with hash?

Answer 1

ben432rew's answer is close, but it's imperative that the super call of url passes name rather than hashed_name, unless you add some other code to the method that produces a variable with that name. Additionally, it's important that the last line of the your storage class's url return the value from its super:

from django.contrib.staticfiles.storage import ManifestStaticFilesStorage
from django.conf import settings


class BigBlindManifestStaticFilesStorage(ManifestStaticFilesStorage):

    def url(self, name, force=True):
        """
        Override .url to use hashed url in development
        """
        return super(ManifestStaticFilesStorage, self).url(name, True)