Pyramid static views (js, img, css): AttributeError

Question

To serve stylesheets, images and JavaScript files for my webproject I created some subdirectories to Pyramid's static folder like shown below:

myproject/static/
├── css
│   └── overwrite.css
├── img
├── js
├── pyramid-16x16.png
├── pyramid.png
├── theme.css
└── theme.min.css

However, using Pyramid's specific config.add_xyz_view methods as stated in the Pyramid Cookbook raises AttributeErrors for all of those three commands like this:

python3.4/site-packages/pyramid/config/ init .py", line 793, in getattr raise AttributeError(name)

AttributeError: add_images_view

or equivalent for css

AttributeError: add_stylesheets_view

and for js

AttributeError: add_javascript_view

Currently I am using a workaround, which seems to work like a charm (see comments in code below).

Since I am a beginner using Pyramid working with this workaround seems to be acceptable. However, I would like to understand what's the reason for those errors.

The project's __init__.py looks like the following:

from pyramid.config import Configurator


def main(global_config, **settings):
    """ This function returns a Pyramid WSGI application."""
    config = Configurator(settings=settings)
    config.include('pyramid_chameleon')
    config.include('pyramid_jinja2')


    config.add_static_view('static', 'static', cache_max_age=3600)

    # raises AttributeError
    # config.add_images_view('img', 'static/img')
    # config.add_stylesheets_view('css', 'static/css')
    # config.add_javascript_view('js', 'static/js')

    # current workaround, works like a charm
    config.add_static_view('img', 'static/img', cache_max_age=3600)
    config.add_static_view('css', 'static/css', cache_max_age=3600)
    config.add_static_view('js', 'static/js', cache_max_age=3600)

    config.add_route('home', '/')
    config.add_route('foo', '/greet')
    config.add_route('bs', '/bs')

    config.scan()
    return config.make_wsgi_app()

Answer 1

Opening a new issue on Pyramid's GitHub repo and Steve Piercy's comment showed up, that there seemed to be a mistake in the Pyramid Cookbook , which was immediately fixed after my question here on SO resp. my issue on the repo.

So the correct approach is like the 'workaround' given in my question:

config.add_static_view('img', 'static/img')
config.add_static_view('css', 'static/css')
config.add_static_view('js', 'static/js')