Sometimes Website import is not working. Exception in GCUtils.pm

[André]

Sometimes when importing Informations from the Web, after confirmation, nothing gets imported but an exception is shown in the console. I tried to get Information from "The Movie DB (DE)" for the Entry "Alvin und die Chipmunks 2":

Can't use string ("United States of America") as an ARRAY ref while "strict refs" in use at /usr/bin/../share/gcstar/lib/GCUtils.pm line 206

I'm using Version 1.7.0 from the PPA.

It looks like the array handling in the file is sometimes incorrect. I tried to debug it with this line right before the "if (ref($value)..."

print Dumper($value);

It then prints:

$VAR1 = [];
$VAR1 = [];
$VAR1 = [];
$VAR1 = [];
$VAR1 = [];
$VAR1 = [];
$VAR1 = [];
$VAR1 = [];
$VAR1 = [];
$VAR1 = [];
$VAR1 = [];
$VAR1 = [];
$VAR1 = [];
$VAR1 = [];
$VAR1 = [];
$VAR1 = [];
$VAR1 = [
          'United States of America'
        ];
$VAR1 = [
          [
            'Animation'
          ],
          [
            "Kom\x{f6}die"
          ],
          [
            'Familie'
          ]
        ];

It looks like it expects that the string 'United States of America' ist not in an array. For the moment i fixed it with this code:

foreach (@{$value})
{
    if (ref($_) eq 'ARRAY') {
        $string .= $_->[0] . ', ';
    } else {
        $string .= $_ . ', ';
    }
}

But i don't know what the real cause is.

[Kerenoc (kerenoc01)]

Fixed in newer versions