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["Francis J. Lacoste" <francis.lacoste@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On April 9, 2010, James Westby wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Just a heads up that might save you a few minutes of head-scratching.
> 
> I have a branch playing in ec2 right now to catch problems with
> exporting Choices. If you do this then you can't actually use the
> attributes through the API, but the normal way that webservice tests
> are written doesn't catch it.
> 
> If you are doing something like:
> 
>   some_person = exported(Choice(vocabulary=SomeGroupOfPeople))
> 
> then you will now see
> 
>   AssertionError: You exported some_person as an IChoice based
>   on an SQLObjectVocabularyBase, you should use
>   lazr.restful.fields.ReferenceChoice instead.
> 
> which is trying to be helpful and telling you that you instead
> need to do
> 
>   from lazr.restful.fields import ReferenceChoice
> 
>   some_person = exported(ReferenceChoice(vocabulary=SomeGroupOfPeople,
>                                          schem=IPerson))
> 
> All users of the broken way in the current tree should be fixed
> (anything that isn't is really broken), but you may find this as you
> export something new.
> 

Wow, thanks a lot James for cleaning this up!


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Francis J. Lacoste
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