How to call collectstatic management command programatically using call_command with options like -l or --noinput

Question

I am trying to call collectstatic command usig call_command but when I want to use option like -l or --noinput

django.core.management.call_command('collectstatic','--noinput')

Its giving me an error

CommandError: Command doesn't accept any arguments

Please let me know how can I call this, how to pass this options.

Thanks in Advance

Answer 1

This is covered in Django's official Documentation: (https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/ref/django-admin/#running-management-commands-from-your-code) the proper way to call the command should be:

from django.core.management import call_command

call_command('collectstatic', verbosity=0, interactive=False)

Answer 2

Check the source code of collectstatic.py

Inside add_arguments function, the dest keyword is what you are looking for. You then pass that value to call_command() as argument.

EDIT: However, looking more carefully, I see that, -l, -c, -n have no dest. Thus it's unclear know how to pass those arguments :(