Re: [gfsd]Re: display-entry.py has an assumed precondition bug

[Bradley M. Kuhn]

Paul Fisher <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 11:19:02PM -0400, Bradley M. Kuhn wrote:
> > display-entry.py assumes that the category_id number 1 is the very top
> > category.
>
> No such assumption exists.  The top level category (root_node) is the
> category named 'index'.
>
> >From display-entry.py, in function handler:
>
>     c.execute ("select id from category where name=%s", ('index',))
>     root_node = c.fetchone ()[0]
>
> I suppose that could be changed to depend on the root node being null,
> but regardless, there's nothing in display-entry.py that hard codes
> the value of root_node to 1.

Ok. I changed my code again so that it loads the "All GNU Packages"
category first.  Check out http://www.gnu.org/directory/ and see what's
going on.  You'd better hurry, because it is broken.  I sent that message
to try to spur you to test this out.  ;)


As you can see on the page, it has some sort of assumption about the
layout of the data.  Perhaps it isn't a simple as I stated, but it
exists.  ;)



   -- bkuhn

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