[Zope-dev] Re: Nasty error message with obscure bug

[Florent Guillaume]

Chris Withers wrote:
> Got this weird error message:
>   Module TAL.TALInterpreter, line 701, in translate
>   Module Products.PageTemplates.TALES, line 261, in translate
>   Module Products.Five.i18n, line 51, in translate
>   Module Products.PageTemplates.GlobalTranslationService, line 33, in 
> translate
> TypeError: expected string or buffer
> 
> ...and eventually tracked it down to this code:
> 
> <meta name="description" content="blah"
>       i18n:attributes="description"/>
> 
> The bug, of course, is that the i18:attributes should be content, not 
> description, which doesn't exist.
> 
> This results in a None msgid, which PTS used to do something (I don't 
> know whether it was sane or not, no errors) with but which raises the 
> rather obscure error above.
> 
> I don't know if anything should be done here. Obviously it'd be nice if 
> the error message was a bit nicer ("i18:attributes specified attribute 
> 'description', which did not exist on tag 'meta' in 
> /standard_template.pt") but it's a pretty obscure error.
> 
> If anyone with greater knowledge could implement the above without much 
> pain, that'd be great. In any case, hopefully Google will catch this 
> some time and save the next weary traveller who bumps into it a couple 
> of hours ;-)

How about opening a ticket in the collector?

Florent


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