[ckan-dev] suggestion: get_action exception

Thu Jun 7 14:14:06 UTC 2012

Thanks Ian,

Dave

On 7 June 2012 13:31, Ian Murray <ian.c.murray at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ticket created: http://trac.ckan.org/ticket/2500
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> 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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