How to disable digest in asset pipeline grails

Question

I am using asset pipeline 2.5.0 and Grails 2.5.0, while creating a war all the static files like js, css, etc are renamed ( a digest gets appended to it ). Is there a way to avoid the renaming or to disable the digest?

Thanks

Answer 1

In general asset-pipeline should always leave a file with the original filename if you are not actively skipping this feature

grails.assets.skipNonDigests

http://bertramdev.github.io/grails-asset-pipeline/guide/configuration.html

As digesting is part of the bundling process and needed to bust caches i highly recommend not disabling that in production but if you still want to you should be able to disable it by also disabling the bundling

grails.assets.bundle=false

Answer 2

The answer from @peschenbach helped me. But the issue was also with my asset-pipeline plugin which was 2.5.1. I updated it to 2.7.3 and added these lines in my Config.groovy

grails.assets.enableDigests = false // this will disable appending digest to minified static files
grails.assets.skipNonDigests = false // this will not skip the non digest files

The enableDigests flag was not present in 2.5.1 which disables renaming of the files. Whereas skipNonDigests will also add the file with original names in the asset folder. Hope this helps others.