Changes:

- Allow using the new lilya feature providing multiple directories with
  fallthrough behaviour

docs/en/docs/configurations/staticfiles.md

@@ -42,14 +42,27 @@ but also via settings.
 
 This will make sure you keep the settings clean, separated and without a bloated **Esmerald** instance.
 
-## Multiple directories and multiple pathes
+## Multiple directories and multiple pathes (without fallthrough)
 
 Imagine, for example, you have multiple directories you would like to access including a `node_modules/` one.
 This is possible do do it by passing multiple `StaticFilesConfig` configurations and shown below:
 
 ```python
 {!> ../../../docs_src/configurations/staticfiles/example_multiple.py!}
 ```
+The advantage is a fine granular configuration. Different options and packages can be set.
 
 !!! Note
     The first path match is used and there is currently no fallthrough in case no file is found, so the order is very important.
+
+
+## Multiple directories with fallthrough
+
+Designers may want to provide overwrites to static files or have fallbacks. In the [former example](#multiple-directories-and-multiple-pathes-without-fallthrough) this wasn't possible.
+For **newer** lilya versions it is possible to provide multiple directories to lilya and get such a behavior
+
+```python
+{!> ../../../docs_src/configurations/staticfiles/example_multiple_fallthrough.py!}
+```
+
+Both styles can

docs/en/docs/release-notes.md

@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ hide:
 
 - Fix cli detection of wrapped esmerald instances or different ASGI servers.
 - Allow passing multiple `StaticFilesConfig` configurations in a tuple.
+- Allow passing multiple directories to `StaticFiles` by removing the stringification in `StaticFilesConfig` so a fallthrough behavior can be etablished.
+  Note: this requires a newer lilya version.
 
 ## 3.5.1
 

docs_src/configurations/staticfiles/example_multiple_fallthrough.py

@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from esmerald import Esmerald, StaticFilesConfig
+
+static_files_config = StaticFilesConfig(
+    path="/static", directory=["static/overwrites", "static", "static/defaults", "node_modules"]
+)
+
+app = Esmerald(static_files_config=static_files_config)

esmerald/config/static_files.py

@@ -1,12 +1,14 @@
 from pathlib import Path
-from typing import Any, Dict, List, Optional, Tuple, Union
+from typing import Any, List, Optional, Tuple, Union
 
 from lilya._internal._path import clean_path
 from lilya.staticfiles import StaticFiles
 from lilya.types import ASGIApp
 from pydantic import BaseModel, DirectoryPath, constr, field_validator
 from typing_extensions import Annotated, Doc
 
+DirectoryType = Union[DirectoryPath, str, Path, Any]
+
 
 class StaticFilesConfig(BaseModel):
     """
@@ -41,7 +43,7 @@ class StaticFilesConfig(BaseModel):
         ),
     ]
     directory: Annotated[
-        Optional[Union[DirectoryPath, str, Path, Any]],
+        Optional[Union[DirectoryType, list[DirectoryType], tuple[DirectoryType, ...]]],
         Doc(
             """
             The directory for the statics in the format of a path like.
@@ -81,22 +83,9 @@ def validate_path(cls, value: str) -> str:
             raise ValueError("path parameters are not supported for static files")
         return clean_path(value)
 
-    def _build_kwargs(
-        self,
-    ) -> Dict[str, Union[bool, int, DirectoryPath, List[Union[str, Tuple[str, str]]]]]:
-        """
-        Builds the necessary kwargs to create an StaticFiles object.
-        """
-        kwargs = {"html": self.html, "check_dir": self.check_dir}
-        if self.packages:
-            kwargs.update({"packages": self.packages})  # type: ignore
-        if self.directory:
-            kwargs.update({"directory": str(self.directory)})  # type: ignore
-        return kwargs  # type: ignore
-
     def to_app(self) -> ASGIApp:
         """
         It can be three scenarios
         """
 
-        return StaticFiles(**self._build_kwargs())  # type: ignore
+        return StaticFiles(**self.model_dump(exclude_none=True, exclude=["path"]))  # type: ignore