20111006¶

Tring to get the test suite running on wsl.

lino.apps.dsbe.fixtures.demo now uses the romanized form “Tatjana Kasennova” instead of “Татьяна Казеннова”.

The idea behind this was to show that cyrillic characters are supported. But this was more: it was a mix of cyrillic and other alphabets in a same table column. While sqlite accepts this and doesn’t really bother about how to sort them correctly, MySQL with charset utf8 and the default collation utf8_general_ci does not accept cyrillic characters, saying:

Warning: Incorrect string value: '\xD0\x9A\xD0\xB0\xD0\xB7...' for column 'name' at row 1

So this example was not very useful and needs special configuration tricks on MySQL.

lino.tools.obj2str() now handles the fact that values of an AutoField are sometimes simple int and somtimes long integers.

The following failure comes when using Django 1.3 (and not a pre-1.4 snapshot):

======================================================================
ERROR: test_shortcut_view (django.contrib.contenttypes.tests.ContentTypesTests)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/var/snapshots/django/django/contrib/contenttypes/tests.py", line 64, in test_shortcut_view
    obj = User.objects.create(username="john")
  ...
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/MySQLdb/connections.py", line 35, in defaulterrorhandler
    raise errorclass, errorvalue
DatabaseError: (1146, "Table 'test_myproject.auth_user' doesn't exist")

Accessing the message attribute of an Exception raises a DeprecationWarning in Python 2.6.6, but not in Python 2.7:

./var/snapshots/lino/lino/apps/dsbe/tests/dsbe_tests.py:194:
DeprecationWarning: BaseException.message has been deprecated as of Python 2.6

(Solved this by testing on str(e) instead of e.message.)

Here another funny failure that happens in wsl (Python 2.6.6, Django 1.4 pre-alpha SVN-16722) but not on jana (Python 2.6.6, Django 1.4 pre-alpha SVN-16714):

Problem installing fixture '/var/snapshots/lino/lino/apps/dsbe/fixtures/demo.py': Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/var/snapshots/django/django/core/management/commands/loaddata.py", line 175, in handle
    for obj in objects:
  ...
  File "/var/snapshots/lino/lino/utils/instantiator.py", line 80, in convert
    model.__name__,lookup_kw,e))
DataError: RoleType.objects.get(**{'pk': 1}) : RoleType matching query does not exist.

Updated /var/snapshots/django-1.4 on wsl from revision 16722 to 16941. Updated /var/snapshots/django on jana from revision 16714 to 16941. Result: failure remains even if both systems have the same Django version.

Database configurations are equivalent, both have servers something like:

DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.mysql',
        'NAME': 'myproject',
        'USER': 'django',
        'PASSWORD': 'my cool password',
        'HOST': '127.0.0.1',
        'PORT': '3306'
    }
}

How to compare the MySQL server configurations on two systems? The answer is:

mysqladmin variables -u root -p > mysql.vars

Difference: storage_engine was MyISAM on jana but InnoDB on wsl. About ` storage engines <http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/storage-engines.html>`_:

MyISAM: The default MySQL storage engine and the one that is used the most in Web, data warehousing, and other application environments. MyISAM is supported in all MySQL configurations, and is the default storage engine unless you have configured MySQL to use a different one by default.
InnoDB: A transaction-safe (ACID compliant) storage engine for MySQL that has commit, rollback, and crash-recovery capabilities to protect user data. InnoDB row-level locking (without escalation to coarser granularity locks) and Oracle-style consistent nonlocking reads increase multi-user concurrency and performance. InnoDB stores user data in clustered indexes to reduce I/O for common queries based on primary keys. To maintain data integrity, InnoDB also supports FOREIGN KEY referential-integrity constraints.

Currently we use MyISAM, later we’ll get it running using InnoDB.

Another little bug::: AttributeError: ‘module’ object has no attribute ‘JobRequest’