Comment 16 for bug 835103

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Abel Deuring (adeuring) wrote : Re: [Bug 835103] Re: HWDB submissions since Lucid are marked as Invalid

On 31.08.2011 08:22, Robert Collins wrote:
> Ah. Well it was those that I squished oopses from :) perhaps we should just
> process inline?

Agreed. But when we do this, we should also provide a webservice API
method to upload a hardware report. The API, at least when used with
launchpadlib, has a much more reliable way to forward errors to the
client, compared with what checkbox has to do today to figure out if
something went wrong with the upload.

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> On 31/08/2011 5:15 PM, "Abel Deuring" <email address hidden>
> wrote:
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> On 31.08.2011 02:01, Robert Collins wrote:
>> I'm not 100% sure but there are tests that the view has...
> The extra HTTP headers in the view? They are just about "bureaucratic
> errors" about missing or invalid values for form fields, but not about
> the question if the content of the hardware report is useful.
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