Gwibber doesn't show an error when the Flickr username is wrong

[Sense Egbert Hofstede]

Binary package hint: gwibber

When you enter the wrong username for your Flickr account in Gwibber, Gwibber silently fails, but doesn't notice the user. The user who entered the wrong username doesn't understand what happened and thinks Gwibber is broken.

When you enter a wrong username, the following traceback is visible in the command line:

ERROR:Gwibber Dispatcher:<flickr:images> Operation failed
DEBUG:Gwibber Dispatcher:Traceback:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/qense/Ontwikkeling/Ubuntu/gwibber/gwibber/gwibber/microblog/dispatcher.py", line 81, in perform_operation
    message_data = PROTOCOLS[account["protocol"]].Client(account)(opname, **args)
  File "/home/qense/Ontwikkeling/Ubuntu/gwibber/gwibber/gwibber/microblog/flickr.py", line 87, in __call__
    return getattr(self, opname)(**args)
  File "/home/qense/Ontwikkeling/Ubuntu/gwibber/gwibber/gwibber/microblog/flickr.py", line 91, in images
    user_id=self._getNSID(), format="json", nojsoncallback="1",
  File "/home/qense/Ontwikkeling/Ubuntu/gwibber/gwibber/gwibber/microblog/flickr.py", line 84, in _getNSID
    return tmp["user"]["nsid"]
KeyError: 'user'

The problem is worsened by the fact that you have to enter your Yahoo! username to access Flickr with Gwibber; your Flickr username -- if different from your Yahoo! username -- won't work. Noticing the user about this in the account creation window will help a lot as well.

This issue is confirmed with the trunk.

[Mohamed Amine Ilidrissi (ilidrissi.amine)]

Confirming this bug on 10.10.
Btw, how can you generate this traceback? All I see when launching gwibber via the terminal is "Updating..."

[Sense Egbert Hofstede (sense)]

You need to manually launch 'gwibber-service', because that's where
the messages are fetched.

On 11 July 2010 19:47, Mohamed Amine IL Idrissi
<email address hidden> wrote:
> Confirming this bug on 10.10.
> Btw, how can you generate this traceback? All I see when launching gwibber via the terminal is "Updating..."
>
> --
> Gwibber doesn't show an error when the Flickr username is wrong
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/604324
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> of the bug.
>

Regards,
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Sense Hofstede