[Tracker-discuss] [issue153] trigger traceback when doing issue search on non-existent username

[Paul Dubois]

Paul Dubois added the comment:

One idea is, add an artificial 'user' with no privleges named 'Unknown
User', and instead of deleting the value from the filterspec, change it to
this name. I don't know what would happen but it would be
interesting....(:->

On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 12:13 PM, Philipp Gortan <
metatracker at psf.upfronthosting.co.za> wrote:

>
> Philipp Gortan added the comment:
>
> The fundamental problem we're facing here is that the module that's
> observing
> the error, the `lookupIds` function in cgi.templating, does not have any
> possibility to report the error to the user. It cannot raise an exception
> that
> results in the user being returned to the search with the `error_message`
> containing an appropriate message, like "User 'foo' doesn't exist", which
> would
> be the right thing, I guess.
> So I handle the wrong user input the same way as it's handled for link
> properties, by dropping the unknown value from the filterspec.
> Can someone with checkin privileges please review and merge the patch?
> Thank you!
>
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