Monday, February 22, 2016

Splitted Lino into “Core” and “Extension Library”

Hamza did good work this weekend. On Saturday we started #356, and he continued on his own while I had a week-end with almost no computer time. Now I merged his work into the masters of Lino and Lino Extensions Library and continued where he stopped. It took me less than a day. This was an example of perfect teamwork! We can also say Bravo to the Python language which enables us to do such fundamental architechtural changes with such little effort.

I moved lino_xl/projects/xl/locale to lino_xl/lib/xl/locale (this was probably a typo).

Yes, in Lino both fab initdb and fab test work.

fab initdb in Lino Extensions Library failed with an error AttributeError: ‘NoneType’ object has no attribute ‘replace’. I fixed this by a change in atelier: run_in_demo_projects now supports projects whose site_dir is None (the run the test suite in the project directory in these cases). lino_xl.projects.i18n is such a case. But I don’t know why we didn’t have this problem earlier (but see later).

Checkin because now I can reproduce the problem where Hamza was stuck yesterday evening:

django.core.exceptions.ValidationError: {'build_method': [u'This
field cannot be null.']}

I have no explanation why this problem occurred now, but I worked around it by making the build_method field of a CachedPrintable nullable. Indeed it seems that this was some historic requirement, or if in the future we discover some code which relies on this field being non-nullable, then we should change that code.

Then I started to look at the fab test failures in Lino Extensions Library. It seems that there is some work to to:

$ fab test
[localhost] local: python setup.py -q test
FEEEEEFFFEEEFFFEFEEEEFEEFEEEEFEFFEFEFEEEFF..FFFEEFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF.
======================================================================
ERROR: test_actions (tests.DocsTests)
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Traceback (most recent call last):
...

(But most failures were because we copied the tests for XL from Lino and didn’t yet delete those which remain there).

Aha, I found the explanation for the AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'replace' error above: setup_cache_directory was set to simply fail silently instead of raising an exception:

Exception: Cannot use /.../lino_cache/min2 for
lino_xl.projects.min2.settings.Site because it is used for
lino.projects.min2.settings.Site.

As far as I can remember I disabled it once when I had problems to get Lino pass on Travis. But here it was obviously necessary to raise an exception. Because must delete the lino_cache.txt in my LINO_CACHE_ROOT for the projects which moved from Lino to XL.

9h50 : The test suites for both Lino and XL pass, and the Sphinx docs build (though with warnings). I published both doctrees and configured the subdomain for http://xl.lino-framework.org/

Checkin and break. The next steps will be to

  • remove Sphinx warnings from fab bd

  • adapt the other projects to the changes

14h30 : Voilà, we can consider #356 as done because the following passed:

$ pp fab clean initdb test bd pd

Oops, the fabfile.py of Lino Extensions Library still had tolerate_sphinx_warnings set to True. Done at 14h45.

One thing remains to do, but is not urgent: the two documentation trees will need some content restructuration to digest the fact that Lino has been “cut” into two separated projects. For example the Lino documentation currently does not even mention that a Lino Extensions Library exists…

Lino Welfare (NBH)

I fixed #792. The quick_search_fields for lino_xl.lib.contacts.models.Partner is now set to "name". I especially also wrote a test case and functional specs about this: contacts : Managing contacts

Fees per enrolment

I worked on #787. In Lino Voga we need a possibility to select the participation fee individually per enrolment. Example case is a tarification “150 € for the whole year or 60€ for one quarter”. This usually leads to enrolments in three courses, the first enrolment generates an invoice of 150€, and the other two enrolments must not generate any invoice.

Another problem are bus stops. #793. When they organize bus travels, then participant can choose among several bus stops where she will join the group. This choice must be enterer per enrolment. These must probably be yet another field per enrolment, and probably yet another pointer to Product, with a configurable category to control the list of choices.

I tried a generalized way for solving both problems at once. The idea was to define choicelist like this:

EnrolmentFees.add('base_fee', _("Base fee"))
EnrolmentFees.add('bus_stop', _("Bus stop"))
EnrolmentFees.add('options', _("Options"))

And then to have Lino create automatically create the fields for both categoriy and product, at the three levels (Line, Course, Enrolment). But this was getting very hackerish and would have required some internal changes for defining dynamic choosers.

The second attempt is less clever, but simple and elegant: just add a field Enrolment.fee. While I was there, I also changed the fieldname tariff to fee.