16.04's python-django-tastypie doesn't work with 16.04's django

[Brian Murray]

[Impact]
tastypie is unusable with the version of django in Ubuntu 16.04 as it was not updated to support django 1.8.

[Test Case]
1) Install python-django-tastypie and django on Ubuntu 16.04
2) Try to start a django application
3) Observe the following traceback

Using python-django-tastypie from Ubuntu 16.04 results in the following traceback:

[...]
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/tastypie/resources.py", line 1740, in <module>
    class BaseModelResource(Resource):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/tastypie/resources.py", line 2210, in BaseModelResource
    @transaction.commit_on_success()
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'commit_on_success'

with the version of django-tastypie in -proposed you'll observe no such traceback.

[Regression Potential]
Given that it is not possible to use tastypie, this will be an improvement over the current situation.

This has been fixed in Zesty with django-tastypie version 0.13.3-1. It's probably be best to backport this to 16.04 rather than trying to cherry pick all the django 1.8 changes.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

Hello Brian, or anyone else affected,

Accepted django-tastypie into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/django-tastypie/0.13.3-1~16.04.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed.Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-xenial to verification-done-xenial. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-xenial. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

I was able to verify this on xenial.

ubuntu@juju-0ee92f-stg-error-tracker-5:~$ wget 127.0.0.1:8080
--2017-12-06 23:55:29-- http://127.0.0.1:8080/
Connecting to 127.0.0.1:8080... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 500 Internal Server Error
2017-12-06 23:55:29 ERROR 500: Internal Server Error.

ubuntu@juju-0ee92f-stg-error-tracker-5:~$ apt-cache policy python-django-tastypie
python-django-tastypie:
  Installed: 0.12.0-1build1
  Candidate: 0.13.3-1~16.04.1
  Version table:
     0.13.3-1~16.04.1 500
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/daisy-pluckers/daisy-seeds/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages
 *** 0.12.0-1build1 500
        500 http://prodstack-zone-2.clouds.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
ubuntu@juju-0ee92f-stg-error-tracker-5:~$ apt-cache policy python-django-tastypie
python-django-tastypie:
  Installed: 0.13.3-1~16.04.1
  Candidate: 0.13.3-1~16.04.1
  Version table:
 *** 0.13.3-1~16.04.1 500
        500 http://prodstack-zone-2.clouds.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-proposed/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     0.13.3-1~16.04.1 500
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/daisy-pluckers/daisy-seeds/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages
     0.12.0-1build1 500
        500 http://prodstack-zone-2.clouds.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 Packages
ubuntu@juju-0ee92f-stg-error-tracker-5:~$ sudo service gunicorn restart
ubuntu@juju-0ee92f-stg-error-tracker-5:~$ wget 127.0.0.1:8080
--2017-12-06 23:57:23-- http://127.0.0.1:8080/
Connecting to 127.0.0.1:8080... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [text/html]
Saving to: ‘index.html’

index.html [ <=> ] 11.40K --.-KB/s in 0s

2017-12-06 23:57:27 (47.8 MB/s) - ‘index.html’ saved [11670]

The 500 error with the version of the package was associated with the following OOPS.

S-5af7bc03693708a4369385ee55754abb OOPS-69a1381f31c69a3d89fcdef9a6cdf4b1
ubuntu@juju-0ee92f-stg-error-tracker-5:~$ cat /srv/errors.staging.ubuntu.com/staging/oops-local/2017-12-06/OOPS-5af7bc03693708a4369385ee55754abb
req_vars~HTTP_ACCEPT*/*HTTP_USER_AGENTWget/1.17.1 (linux-gnu)HTTP_CONNECTION
                                                                            Keep-AliveSERVER_NAM0.0.0.0SCRIPT_NAMEwsgi.url_schemehttpREQUEST_METHODGETHTTP_HOST127.0.0.1:8080PATH_INFO/SERVER_PORT8080SERVER_PROTOCOL HTTP/1.1QUERY_STRINGwsgi.version01HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING identityreportererrorsurlhttp://127.0.0.1:8080/hostname juju-0ee92f-stg-error-tracker-5value5'module' object has no attribute 'commit_on_success' time�A.`typeAttributeErrorid&OOPS-5af7bc03693708a4369385ee55754abbtb_textp

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package django-tastypie - 0.13.3-1~16.04.1

---------------
django-tastypie (0.13.3-1~16.04.1) xenial; urgency=medium

  * Backport of 0.13.3-1 to fix django-tastypie's incompatability with django
    version 1.8 which is the only one available in Ubuntu 16.04.
    (LP: #1733013)

 -- Brian Murray <email address hidden> Fri, 17 Nov 2017 14:31:09 -0800

[Chris Halse Rogers (raof)]

The verification of the Stable Release Update for django-tastypie has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.