[ckan-dev] suggestion: get_action exception

[Ian Murray]

Ticket created: http://trac.ckan.org/ticket/2500

On 7 June 2012 13:15, David Read <david.read at hackneyworkshop.com> wrote:

> Hi CKAN devs,
>
> Can I request that ckan.logic.get_action raises an exception if the
> action requested doesn't exist?
>
> Two of us had a frustrating time tracking down an exception this
> morning. It's difficult when the exception is raised in python in a
> template because you don't get a line number. The problem was caused
> by a new logic function being added to another extension, and we
> hadn't updated the code there. So if get_action raised an proper
> exception rather than silently returning None then I think we'd have
> found the problem quicker.
>
> I'd write the code for this, but as I understand that the new system
> would require a ticket, branch, pull request, code review, merge. It
> seems a lot to do for such a small thing.
>
> Dave
>
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