20121120

Lino-Welfare 1.0.2 ist seit heute im Versuchsbetrieb, also in der letzten Testphase vor dem Release.

Testrunde 1 nach dem Upgrade

  • Noch nicht behoben (hat auch Zeit): Wenn ich die Hauptseite mit fmt=plain aufrufe, kriege ich:

    201211-20 05:03:43 ERROR base : Internal Server Error: /api/about/About
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/var/snapshots/django/django/core/handlers/base.py", line 111, in get_response
    response = callback(request, *callback_args, **callback_kwargs)
  File "/var/snapshots/django/django/views/generic/base.py", line 48, in view
    return self.dispatch(request, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/var/snapshots/django/django/views/generic/base.py", line 69, in dispatch
    return handler(request, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/django/cpas_eupen/using/lino/lino/ui/extjs3/views.py", line 1086, in get
    if next_start < ar.get_total_count():
AttributeError: 'ActionRequest' object has no attribute 'get_total_count'

  • lino_xl.lib.cal.CalendarPanel offenbarte sich dem deutschsprachigen Benutzer als “CalendarPanel” statt “Kalender”. Habe das label von der CalendarAction ins CalendarPanel versetzt.

  • Statt “Autor” eines Termins sagt Lino jetzt “Verantwortlicher”. Wenn Alicia nicht da ist und Caroline mit einem Klienten einen Termin für Alicia vormerkt, dann steht dort Alicia und nicht Caroline. (Dass Caroline den Termin ursprünglich erstellt hat, sieht Alicia in der Mitteilung per E-Mail, ansonsten hält Lino diese Information für belanglos…)

The last function-based view

Lino still caused a DeprecationWarning in Django 1.4.2 because lino.ui.base.UI.get_patterns() still added a well-meant entry for favicon.ico. No longer.

Lino no longer configures any automagic favicon.ico or robots.txt.

A basic favicon.ico and robots.txt configuration for Apache looks like:

Alias /robots.txt /var/www/robots.txt
Alias /favicon.ico /var/www/favicon.ico

Where favicon.ico may or may not be a copy of /lino/media/favicon.ico, and the file /var/www/robots.txt may contain for example:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

Noch Bugs

  • Setting a column filter on a date column caused a server traceback

    NameError at /api/isip/MyContracts
    global name ‘datetime’ is not defined
    /usr/local/django/cpas_eupen/using/lino/lino/core/dbtables.py in add_gridfilters, line 245

  • Clicking the “Home” button (the one of Lino’s main menu) when at least one window was opened caused the viewport’s loadmask to show up forever.

    lino.Lino.get_site_menu() made the Home button as follows:

    url = "javascript:Lino.close_all_windows()"
main.add_url_button(url,label=_("Home"))

    Now it is better:

    main.add_item('home',_("Home"),javascript="Lino.close_all_windows()")

  • The message “Failed to delete %(record)s : %(error)s.” never reached the user, they saw only “‘dict’ object has no attribute ‘has_header’”.

Lino and Internet Explorer

Oops, I just discovered that Lino doesn’t work in Internet Explorer. It says:

Message: Invalid procedure call or argument
Line: 2362
Char: 17
Code: 0
URI: http://127.0.0.1:8000/media/extjs/ext-all-debug.js

To be honest I dicovered this already in February and didn’t yet find time to investigate it.

The Sencha forum describes a similar problem (but with another reason): http://www.sencha.com/forum/showthread.php?243915

My ext-all-debug.js says at line 2362:

style == 'opacity' ?
    this.setOpacity(value) :
    this.dom.style[chkCache(style)] = value;

I modified that code in order to localize where IE stumbles:

var i = chkCache(style);
try {
style == 'opacity' ?
    this.setOpacity(value) :
    this.dom.style[i] = value;
} catch (e) {
    window.alert('failed to this.dom.style['+i+'] = '+value)
}

To find out that my following code in HtmlBoxElement was guilty:

def get_field_options(self,**kw):
    # hide horizontal scrollbar
    # for this trick thanks to Vladimir
    # <http://forums.ext.net/showthread.php?1513-CLOSED-Autoscroll-on-ext-panel>
    kw.update(bodyStyle="overflow-x:hidden !important;")

After removing the !important, IE no longer stumbles. And we’ll see whether this “!important” was important…

Belgian eID cards and the nationality

Question: The ‘nationality’ field of a Belgian eID card contains the nationality in full text and in the language of the card. Maybe even depending on the person’s gender. So for a Belgian it may contain “BELG”, “BELGE”, “BELGIER”, “BELGIERIN” or “BELGIAN”. Isn’t there also a code? And is there somewhere an official list of all possible nationalities?

Answer: no, there isn’t.

Yes, that’s typically Belgian… I just couldn’t believe it at first glance.

I won’t try to change the Belgian administration, I think for me it’s okay to say “Sorry, it’s impossible to reliably extract the nationality from an eid card”. A PCSW can always do afterwards a Tx25 request to the national register to get this and other information.

  • Conclusion: remove the ‘Country.nationalities’ field & Co. We’ll need a simple dump-load cycle: lino_welfare.modlib.pcsw.migrate.migrate_from_1_0_2() does nothing except to confirm the new version.

Version 1.0.3

All this is be part of Lino-Welfare 1.0.3, which went into production in Eupen today evening.

Last minute changes:

  • lino.utils.dumpy.Serializer converted the list of unsorted models to a set before building the list of sorted models. This caused the sort order to be random for models with same level of independency, making double dump tests more difficult:

    #~ 20121120 unsorted = set(unsorted)

  • Setting a column filter for a normal date column now works… but Lino also allowed setting a filter on a virtual field. Which then caused another traceback “FieldError at /api/pcsw/IntegClients / Cannot resolve keyword ‘applies_from’ into field.” Solved by on aditional test if isinstance(editor,FieldElement) and not isinstance(editor.field,fields.VirtualField) in lino.ui.extjs3.ext_elems.

TODO: