Webservice treats named operation arguments as the wrong type

[William Grant]

Webservice named operations have their arguments mistreated. I discovered this with IDistribution.getSeries() - with name_or_version='8.10' it OOPSes with a NotFoundError like 1068S27, which I hear tries to call getSeries('8.1').

I can also ask for Ubuntu 8.0399999999999991 using IDistribution.getSeries(), and it will give me Ubuntu 8.04.

IProductSeries.addRelease() has the same problem, so it's not isolated to any one method.

[Leonard Richardson (leonardr)]

The problem is caused on the server side where name_or_version is deserialized as a JSON object. TextField fields in query data shouldn't be JSON deserialized; they should just be treated as strings.

A workaround: quote '8.10' as '"8.10"'. Then it'll get deserialized into a string.