dapper error with Wrong XPath-Expr in Subscribers.parse() '__xml'

[Brian Murray]

When executing the following query on Dapper, python 2.4.3:

bugnumbers --parsemode=html --ns ">5" -p xorg

I receive this error message:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./bugnumbers", line 324, in ?
    main()
  File "./bugnumbers", line 257, in main
    bl = BugList(cl.options.url)
  File "/home/brian/source_trees/bughelper/main/launchpadbugs/connector.py", line 111, in __call__
    filter=self.__buglist_filter, all_tasks=self.__all_tasks)
  File "/home/brian/source_trees/bughelper/main/launchpadbugs/html_buglist.py", line 123, in __init__
    all_tasks, start_bugs, BugPage)
  File "/home/brian/source_trees/bughelper/main/launchpadbugs/buglistbase.py", line 85, in __init__
    self._add(self.baseurl)
  File "/home/brian/source_trees/bughelper/main/launchpadbugs/buglistbase.py", line 171, in _add
    self.__filter.filter(b)
  File "/home/brian/source_trees/bughelper/main/launchpadbugs/basebuglistfilter.py", line 166, in filter
    r = set(_iter_bugs())
  File "/home/brian/source_trees/bughelper/main/launchpadbugs/basebuglistfilter.py", line 162, in _iter_bugs
    yield f(b)
  File "./bugnumbers", line 42, in _no_by_attribute
    a = getattr(bug, attribute)
  File "/home/brian/source_trees/bughelper/main/launchpadbugs/lphelper.py", line 261, in <lambda>
    if fget : fget = lambda s, n=fget.__name__ : getattr(s, n)()
  File "/home/brian/source_trees/bughelper/main/launchpadbugs/html_bug.py", line 87, in func
    x.parse()
  File "/home/brian/source_trees/bughelper/main/launchpadbugs/html_bug.py", line 922, in parse
    assert self.__xml, "Wrong XPath-Expr in Subscribers.parse() '__xml' (%s)" %(DEBUG_URL or "unknown")
AssertionError: Wrong XPath-Expr in Subscribers.parse() '__xml' (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/155685)

This is negatively affecting some reports that I run. I am using bughelper revno 210 and python-launchpad-bugs revno 88. The same query does not fail on Hardy.

[Markus Korn (thekorn)]

I can confirm this bug, it is Bug 137574 again. dapper's libxml2 stops parsing this bugreport silently.
I will try to find a workaround tomorrow morning.

Markus

[Markus Korn (thekorn)]

This patch against py-lp-bugs rev 88 should fix this error, it's not optimal but I fear we can not do anything else as it's libxml2 which is actually broken in dapper.

Please review & test this.

Markus

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

This resolved the issue with that bug on Dapper and could be merged with main.

[Markus Korn (thekorn)]

------------------------------------------------------------
revno: 93
committer: Markus Korn <email address hidden>
branch nick: main
timestamp: Fri 2008-05-09 09:07:59 +0200
message:
  * launchpadbugs/lphelper.py: fixed html-parser for Dapper again,
    workaround for broken libxml2 (LP: #220679)
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[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

This bug is fixed in the current main branch of python-launchpad-bugs.