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[Michael Hudson <michael.hudson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 07/05/10 14:12, Tim Penhey wrote:
> Hi Leonard,
>
> There is a method exposed on IBranch called setTarget.  Currently this is
> marked with @export_write_operation().
>
> However setting the target changes the URL for the object, and after the move
> has happened, we get the following error:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "<console>", line 1, in<module>
>    File "./lp-prompt", line 47, in move_branch_to_project
>      branch.setTarget(project=target)
>    File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/lazr/restfulclient/resource.py", line
> 490, in __call__
>      self.resource.lp_refresh()
>    File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/lazr/restfulclient/resource.py", line
> 618, in lp_refresh
>      super(Entry, self).lp_refresh(new_url, etag)
>    File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/lazr/restfulclient/resource.py", line
> 293, in lp_refresh
>      raise e
> HTTPError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found
>
> Not surprising, but how can we tell the restfulclient that the url for the
> entry has changed?

I'm pretty sure that lazr.restful returns a redirect if a write 
operation changes the canonical url -- but could the unique name cache 
be messing us up here?

Cheers,
mwh