[Calypso] [PATCH 1/4] Don't validate when sending data back to the user.

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 11:04:27AM +0200, Guido Günther wrote:
> On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 10:35:29PM +0000, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> > From: Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at jelmer.uk>
> > 
> > The alternative is raising an exception here or hiding the item
> > altogether.
> > ---
> >  calypso/webdav.py | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/calypso/webdav.py b/calypso/webdav.py
> > index 0299c7a..0c59cc7 100644
> > --- a/calypso/webdav.py
> > +++ b/calypso/webdav.py
> > @@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ class Item(object):
> >          Text is the serialized form of the item.
> >  
> >          """
> > -        return self.object.serialize().decode('utf-8')
> > +        return self.object.serialize(validate=False).decode('utf-8')
> 
> How would we end up with items we can't serialize? If so shouldn't we
> better catch the exception and then pass in validate=False and log an
> error?

In this particular case, I suspect it is because newer versions of
vobject are stricter. I also have other things that write to the same
repositories that are served by Calypso so that is another possible
source of non-validating files.

Cheers,

Jelmer