Subversion returns invalid XML when accessing property name containing '/' over http

[Matt Nordhoff]

$ bzr branch http://codespeak.net/svn/pypy/dist/
...
SubversionException: ("PROPFIND request failed on '/svn/!svn/bc/45181/pypy/dist'", 175002)
...

jelmer discovered that even svn has problems with that revision (and at least the next few):

$ svn ls -r 45181 http://codespeak.net/svn/pypy/dist
svn: PROPFIND request failed on '/svn/!svn/bc/45181/pypy/dist'
svn: PROPFIND of '/svn/!svn/bc/45181/pypy/dist': 207 Multi-Status (http://codespeak.net)

svn log works, though. It was a test commit from bzr-svn from July 2007; see https://code.launchpad.net/~mwhudson/pypy/bzr-svn .

bzr-svn 0.4 branch r953, bzr.dev r3297, Ubuntu Gutsy.

[Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer)]

This is caused by the fact that a property with a "/" in the name was pushed to the repository (in revision 45181). Strangely enough this apparently wasn't a problem while setting the property but it is a problem while retrieving it.

[Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer)]

This is actually a bug in Subversion's client or server, but it is being triggered by another bzr-svn bug.

[Marc Ordinas i Llopis (marcoil)]

I'm getting a similar problem:

bzr branch svn+http://svn.webkit.org/repository/webkit/trunk trunk
bzr: ERROR: libsvn._core.SubversionException: ("PROPFIND request failed on '/repository/webkit/!svn/vcc/default'", 175002)

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line 834, in run_bzr_catch_errors
    return run_bzr(argv)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line 790, in run_bzr
    ret = run(*run_argv)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line 492, in run_argv_aliases
    return self.run(**all_cmd_args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/builtins.py", line 927, in run
    hardlink=hardlink)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/plugins/svn/remote.py", line 76, in sprout
    result_repo.fetch(repo, revision_id=revision_id)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/repository.py", line 949, in fetch
    return inter.fetch(revision_id=revision_id, pb=pb, find_ghosts=find_ghosts)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/plugins/svn/fetch.py", line 704, in fetch
    self._fetch_switch(needed, pb, lhs_parent)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/plugins/svn/fetch.py", line 629, in _fetch_switch
    editor.start_revision(revid, parent_inv)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/plugins/svn/fetch.py", line 99, in start_revision
    self.svn_revprops = self.source._log._get_transport().revprop_list(self.revnum)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/plugins/svn/errors.py", line 119, in convert
    raise convert_error(e)
SubversionException: ("PROPFIND request failed on '/repository/webkit/!svn/vcc/default'", 175002)

bzr 1.3.1rc1 on python 2.5.1.final.0 (linux2)
arguments: ['/usr/bin/bzr', 'branch', 'svn+http://svn.webkit.org/repository/webkit/trunk', 'trunk']
encoding: 'UTF-8', fsenc: 'UTF-8', lang: 'ca_AD.UTF-8'
plugins:
  bzrtools /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/plugins/bzrtools [1.3.0]
  gtk /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/plugins/gtk [0.93.0]
  launchpad /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/plugins/launchpad [unknown]
  svn /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/plugins/svn [0.4.9]
*** Bazaar has encountered an internal error.

[Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer)]

Marc, I think that is a different issue than this bugreport. Can you reproduce it with bzr-svn 0.5?

[Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer)]

Marking as fix released for bzr-svn, as it no longer causes this bug. Subvertpy doesn't parse the property names correctly yet though.

[Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer)]

*subversion* doesn't parse the property names correctly yet though.

[Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer)]

pinged upstream about it: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.subversion.devel/113198

[Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer)]

closing subvertpy task, this is a subversion bug

[Max Bowsher (maxb)]

Link to correct bug.

[Edmundo (eantoranz)]

what version of svn is producing this problem? Or which isn't?

[Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer)]

This happens with all versions of subversion as far as I know - see the linked bug report.