[Zope-CMF] Bug: 'TypeError: cannot convert string to tuple' in metadata_edit
seb bacon
seb@jamkit.com
Fri, 13 Jul 2001 17:46:41 +0100
* Grégoire Weber <gregoire.weber@switzerland.org> [010713 16:52]:
> Something for the tracker? Where to track if so?
>
> When I call metadata_edit directly from the browser with a
> parameter which is internaly represented by a tuple like
> 'contributors' or subject I get a error, if the parameter
> occurs once only:
> http://path/to/obj/metadata_edit?contributors=x
>
> No error on more than one occurance:
> http://path/to/obj/metadata_edit?contributors=x&contributors=y
This is what the type coercion rules are for:
http://path/to/obj/metadata_edit?contributors:list=x
Your patch is a more robust way of dealing with this kind of
thing, though. I wonder where the responsibility for ensuring type
correctness should lie?
seb