#3 dynamic playlists not shown

[glenneroo]

When working with dynamic playlists, no playlist is visible yet all controls work like normal (next track, volume, etc).

Looking at the packets, the query "method=getPlaylist" is not returning anything to the client...???

[mbedouet]

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that's weird, It works fine here.
some track(s) in your playlist may have characters in the filenames or in the tags that trigger the problem.

do you see some errors in the script log?
it's visible from the amarok script manager (right-click on the script name, then "show output log")

[glenneroo]

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That's right, it occurs after adding some files with Umlauts ("Die Ärzte").
Backtrace attached.
PS: Date/Time in Output Log would be nice to see when new entries are appended at the end :)

[XUL remote] starting readStdin
[XUL remote] starting HTTPD
[XUL remote HTTPD] XUL remote: New connexion from 172.22.89.33
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/SocketServer.py", line 222, in handle_request
self.process_request(request, client_address)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/SocketServer.py", line 241, in process_request
self.finish_request(request, client_address)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/SocketServer.py", line 254, in finish_request
self.RequestHandlerClass(request, client_address, self)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/SocketServer.py", line 521, in __init__
self.handle()
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/BaseHTTPServer.py", line 316, in handle
self.handle_one_request()
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/BaseHTTPServer.py", line 310, in handle_one_request
method()
File "/home/markus/.kde/share/apps/amarok/scripts/xulremote/AmarokHTTPServer.py", line 131, in do_POST
response=getattr(self.server.amarok, method)(*params)
File "/home/markus/.kde/share/apps/amarok/scripts/xulremote/Amarok.py", line 124, in getPlaylist
return parse(plFile)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/xml/dom/minidom.py", line 1913, in parse
return expatbuilder.parse(file)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/xml/dom/expatbuilder.py", line 924, in parse
result = builder.parseFile(fp)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/xml/dom/expatbuilder.py", line 207, in parseFile
parser.Parse(buffer, 0)
ExpatError: reference to invalid character number: line 700, column 16
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/SocketServer.py", line 222, in handle_request
self.process_request(request, client_address)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/SocketServer.py", line 241, in process_request
self.finish_request(request, client_address)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/SocketServer.py", line 254, in finish_request
self.RequestHandlerClass(request, client_address, self)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/SocketServer.py", line 521, in __init__
self.handle()
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/BaseHTTPServer.py", line 316, in handle
self.handle_one_request()
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/BaseHTTPServer.py", line 310, in handle_one_request
method()
File "/home/markus/.kde/share/apps/amarok/scripts/xulremote/AmarokHTTPServer.py", line 131, in do_POST
response=getattr(self.server.amarok, method)(*params)
File "/home/markus/.kde/share/apps/amarok/scripts/xulremote/Amarok.py", line 124, in getPlaylist
return parse(plFile)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/xml/dom/minidom.py", line 1913, in parse
return expatbuilder.parse(file)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/xml/dom/expatbuilder.py", line 924, in parse
result = builder.parseFile(fp)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/xml/dom/expatbuilder.py", line 207, in parseFile
parser.Parse(buffer, 0)
ExpatError: reference to invalid character number: line 700, column 16

[glenneroo]

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just a thought: instead of erroring out on the server side, maybe you should send a string containing the error message to the client so we don't have to debug on the server side :)

Then we could report the error to you directly... e.g.
ExpatError: reference to invalid character number: line 700, column 16
One of the filenames in the list has characters that are not readable....

or something like that :)

[Markus Gaugusch]

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Hi,
Any news on this bug?

[mbedouet]

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well, the problem here is that the python xml parser fails to parse the xml given by Amarok.
that may be a bug from Amarok, or from python.

I cannot reproduce it with files from my collection, could you post the xml file for a playlist that triggers the bug please?

the file path is given by this command:
dcop amarok playlist saveCurrentPlaylist

thanks

[mbedouet]

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Hi
It is probably a problem with the playlist xml generated by Amarok, that in some cases was not valid.
I saw some time ago it was fixed in Amarok.
do you still have this issue?