Re: [Rest2web-develop] Bug#637265: rest2web: please fix default default template location

[Karl G. <ka...@kg...>]

On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 17:33:58 +0100
Michael Foord <fuz...@vo...> wrote:

> Hello Karl,
> 
> rest2web only provides a default template when used in "force
> mode" (-f or --force command line option). Otherwise you *must*
> manually specify the template file, or have a template.txt file in
> the rest2web site. See the documentation for details of how the
> template files are found.

ok, that seems reasonable. In that case could the error make that
clear, rather then simply spitting a backtrace with [err]?


(btw, I'm aware of the source/time issues around this project having
read your other emails to the list.).

thanks,
kk

> All the best,
> 
> Michael Foord
> 
> On 10/08/2011 01:33, Karl Goetz wrote:
> > Package: rest2web
> > Version: 0.5.2~alpha+svn-r248-2
> > Severity: normal
> >
> > Hi,
> > This is what happens when running r2w with a basic configuration
> > file: 10:28:26  kgoetz@epicfail: ~/webrest $ r2w
> > rest2web version 0.5.1
> > Running rest2web the Site Builder.
> > Wed Aug 10 10:29:40 2011
> >
> > Starting in "/home/kgoetz/webrest" directory.
> >
> > Processing "root" directory.
> > [err] Traceback (most recent call last):
> > [err]   File "/usr/bin/r2w", line 170, in<module>
> > [err]     count = main(options, config)
> > [err]   File "/usr/bin/r2w", line 103, in main
> > [err]     return processor.walk()
> > [err]   File
> > "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/rest2web/restprocessor.py", line 365,
> > in walk [err]     errorcheck =
> > self.execute_safely(self.setdefaults, dir_list, toplevel) [err]
> > File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/rest2web/restprocessor.py", line
> > 218, in execute_safely [err]     val =  function(*args, **keywargs)
> > [err]   File
> > "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/rest2web/restprocessor.py", line 661,
> > in setdefaults [err]     raise IOError('No template file found.')
> > [err] IOError: No template file found. [err]
> >
> > Configuration file is:
> > # working directory (might not work)
> > start_directory="./"
> > target_directory="../public_html/website"
> > compare_directory=""
> > # Can this be done with a datestamp?
> > log_file="./website.log"
> > macros=""
> >
> > # [Macro Paths]
> > [uservalues]
> > __encoding__ = UTF-8
> > version="0.0.1"
> >
> >
> > Running with the --template-file option correctly steps through the
> > files available.
> >
> > r2w
> > --template-file=/usr/share/pyshared/rest2web/defaults/template.txt

> > It would be great if this could be fixed so rest2web works out of
> > the box. thanks,
> > kk


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