id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	component	severity	resolution	keywords	cc	release
871	ticket.get appears to die on ticket custom fields	greg@…	osimons	"When trying to use ticket.get() against my trac installation I get a TypeError exception from dump_struct in xmlrpclib.py due to the type of one of my custom fields not being string. They are, in fact type 'unicode' so I'm not really sure if they are wrong or the plugin is wrong but either way it doesn't seem to work. This was also posted to the trac mailing list.

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Sorry to respond to my own post but I've been debugging this a bit and
have more of an idea of what is going on.

I played around with the exception handling in xmlrpclib.py. It turns
out the TypeError exception gets thrown on one of my custom ticket
fields. The field is defined in trac.ini as:

verified = checkbox
verified.label = Fix Verified
verified.value = 0
verified.order = 7

and the type is somehow unicode. I have a few other checkbox custom
fields and if they are processed in order then they are all fine. This
is the same field I had problems with in ticket #3939 so now I'm
wondering if there is just something dodgy with that field. 

Anyone have an idea of how to track this down?

Thanks,
Greg


On Sat, 2006-11-04 at 18:23 -0500, Greg Dickie wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>   Sorry in advance if this is a FAQ but I'm an xmlrpc virgin ;-). I want
> to use xmlrpc to create tickets a part of a merge review process but I
> can't even get the examples to work right ;-). This is trac 0.10 and
> using the example:
> 
> import xmlrpclib
> 
> server = xmlrpclib.ServerProxy(""http://trac/Sledgehammer/xmlrpc"")
> 
> multicall = xmlrpclib.MultiCall(server)
> for ticket in server.ticket.query(""owner=greg""):
>     multicall.ticket.get(ticket)
> print map(str, multicall())
> 
> 
> gives this:
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File ""tt"", line 8, in ?
>     print map(str, multicall())
>   File ""/usr/lib/python2.4/xmlrpclib.py"", line 945, in __call__
>     return
> MultiCallIterator(self.__server.system.multicall(marshalled_list))
>   File ""/usr/lib/python2.4/xmlrpclib.py"", line 1096, in __call__
>     return self.__send(self.__name, args)
>   File ""/usr/lib/python2.4/xmlrpclib.py"", line 1383, in __request
>     verbose=self.__verbose
>   File ""/usr/lib/python2.4/xmlrpclib.py"", line 1147, in request
>     return self._parse_response(h.getfile(), sock)
>   File ""/usr/lib/python2.4/xmlrpclib.py"", line 1286, in _parse_response
>     return u.close()
>   File ""/usr/lib/python2.4/xmlrpclib.py"", line 744, in close
>     raise Fault(**self._stack[0])
> xmlrpclib.Fault: <Fault 2: ""'dictionary key must be string' while
> executing 'system.multicall()'"">
> 
> 
> which seems to be to be a problem in the data being received.
> 
> Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?
> 
> Thanks,
> Greg
> 

}}}

Thanks,
Greg"	defect	closed	normal	XmlRpcPlugin	blocker	worksforme		thijs	0.10