NotImplementedError: This backend doesn't support absolute paths.

[oscarelotero]

Problems with django-storages and django-boto when run manage.py collectstatic

File "/Users/oscarelotero/Documents/Reingeniamos/Proyectos/AG-Corp/aplicacion/entorno/lib/python2.7/site-packages/audiofield/fields.py", line 259, in _set_audio_converted

    filename = self.generate_filename(instance, os.path.basename(getattr(instance, self.name).path))

File "/Users/oscarelotero/Documents/Reingeniamos/Proyectos/AG-Corp/aplicacion/entorno/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/models/fields/files.py", line 64, in _get_path

    return self.storage.path(self.name)

File "/Users/oscarelotero/Documents/Reingeniamos/Proyectos/AG-Corp/aplicacion/entorno/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/files/storage.py", line 114, in path

     raise NotImplementedError("This backend doesn't support absolute paths.")

[michaelappuhn]

Seems like the solution can be drawn from this StackOverflow comment:

I have got it working... not perfect but it works. I needed to rewrite part of the django-audiofield fields.py. Specifically the def _rename_audio and def _set_audio_converted as they both included the path method which doesn't work if you are not serving your static files from local.

I just commented these methods out for now, which is obviously a bad long-term move. The File Storage API is just outside of my wheelhouse, otherwise I'd make a PR :-)

This StackOverflow comment - found via this blog article describes how the File storage API should be used instead of absolute paths when dealing with remote storage.

I think that calling the path property of the FileSystemStorage class, and then using absolute URLs for renaming files is what's flagging this error:

For storage systems that aren’t accessible from the local filesystem, this will raise NotImplementedError instead.