ImportError: cannot import name Resource with python-couchdb 0.7

[Frederik Himpe]

desktopcouch 0.6.4 fails to start here with python-couchdb 0.7 and
couchdb 0.11:

$ /usr/lib/desktopcouch/desktopcouch-service
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/desktopcouch/desktopcouch-service", line 51, in
<module>
    import desktopcouch
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/desktopcouch/__init__.py", line
20, in <module>
    from desktopcouch.start_local_couchdb import process_is_couchdb,
read_pidfile
  File
"/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/desktopcouch/start_local_couchdb.py",
line 42, in <module>
    from desktopcouch.records.server import CouchDatabase
  File
"/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/desktopcouch/records/server.py", line
25, in <module>
    from couchdb.client import Resource
ImportError: cannot import name Resource

[sandalle (sandalle)]

Gentoo has this bug at http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=315743
Source Mage GNU/Linux doesn't have gwibber yet because of this bug.

[sandalle (sandalle)]

This patch switches couchdb.client -> couchdb.http, seems to work for gwibber.

[Frederik Himpe (fhimpe)]

Unfortunately, it does not seem enough here (desktopcouch 0.6.4, python-couchdb 0.7):

$ /usr/lib/desktopcouch/desktopcouch-service
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/desktopcouch/desktopcouch-service", line 51, in <module>
    import desktopcouch
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/desktopcouch/__init__.py", line 20, in <module>
    from desktopcouch.start_local_couchdb import process_is_couchdb, read_pidfile
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/desktopcouch/start_local_couchdb.py", line 42, in <module>
    from desktopcouch.records.server import CouchDatabase
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/desktopcouch/records/server.py", line 27, in <module>
    from desktopcouch.records import server_base
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/desktopcouch/records/server_base.py", line 42, in <module>
    from couchdb.http import ResourceNotFound, ResourceConflict, uri as couchdburi
ImportError: cannot import name uri

[sandalle (sandalle)]

Yeah, I'm hitting the bug in Comment #3 now, thought it was just a missing dependency, but it's from couchdb-python (I believe) and I haven't fixed it yet. Probably have to do a similar patch.

[Michael Scherer (misc-zarb)]

It seems that desktopcouch use internal API of python-couchdb, if I understand well the comment on line 997 :

http://code.google.com/p/couchdb-python/source/browse/couchdb/client.py?r=75e9a8141dcf655b3f2c370f123c7277445c8649

I fixed the uri error by cut and pasting the code to desktopcouch, but now, another error arise because Resource object have changed.

[Michael Scherer (misc-zarb)]

And there is a similar bug report on https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=59497

[Olivier FAURAX (olivier-faurax)]

Gwibber on Mandriva 2010.1 is unlaunchable due to this bug.
Please change the Importance to something else than "Undecided".

[Michael Scherer (misc-zarb)]

It seems there is a branch with the needed fix : https://code.launchpad.net/~vds/desktopcouch/desktopcouch_couchdb_0_7
but so far, it was not merged ( even if proposed for it ). I am testing it to see if it solve the problem.

[Vincenzo Di Somma (vds)]

I'm the author of that branch.

[Michael Scherer (misc-zarb)]

So, after testing, I found some problem on gwibber, related to key error exception on _id. I have added a small patch to test it, but I am far from being familliar with gwibber/desktopcouch/couchdb separation or internals. So with : http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/packages/cooker/gwibber/current/SOURCES/gwibber-2.30.1-fix_for_new_couchdb.diff?view=log

and http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/packages/cooker/desktopcouch/current/SOURCES/desktopcouch-0.6.6-python-couchdb0.7-compat.patch?view=log

gwibber work on a local statunet installation. I will post more information once testers give me feedback ( as I am not a user of microblogging ) .

[Richard Rath (rcrath)]

I also am hitting this bug when using the quickly development platform in ubuntu 10.10 with default installs of python, desktop couch, etc. I get the following when creating a new project with quickly:

$ quickly create ubuntu-application clipwich

Creating project directory clipwich
Creating bzr repository and commiting
Launching your newly created project!le 0/1
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./clipwich", line 32, in <module>
    from clipwich import (
  File "/home/rich/clipwich/clipwich/PreferencesClipwichDialog.py", line 6, in <module>
    from desktopcouch.records.server import CouchDatabase
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/desktopcouch/records/server.py", line 25, in <module>
    from couchdb.client import Resource
ImportError: cannot import name Resource

I also get an error when running:
[~]$/usr/lib/desktopcouch/desktopcouch-service
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/desktopcouch/desktopcouch-service", line 53, in <module>
    from desktopcouch import replication
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/desktopcouch/replication.py", line 24, in <module>
    from desktopcouch.pair.couchdb_pairing import couchdb_io
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/desktopcouch/pair/couchdb_pairing/couchdb_io.py", line 28, in <module>
    from desktopcouch.records import server
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/desktopcouch/records/server.py", line 25, in <module>
    from couchdb.client import Resource
ImportError: cannot import name Resource

Is there a fix for this?

[Marten de Vries (marten-de-vries)]

This bug also affects me when starting 'lernid', I am using the desktopcouch and lernid version from the ubuntu repositories (maverick). I can also reproduce the error by issuing the command '/usr/lib/desktopcouch/desktopcouch-service' like in the first post.