[Alexandria-list] What is supposed to be the contents of a yaml file in Alexandria

[L.C. Karssen]

On Sat, 2008-02-23 at 17:37 -0500, Tim Malone wrote:
> oops, I had sent an email in response to this and forgot to cc the
> list. 
Oops, and apparently I forgot to add the list as well, when I
replied :-D. 

Well, for the record: your suggestions works. Double click on a book and
hitting the save button works. 

Lennart.


> 
> Tim
> 
> On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 5:05 PM, Cathal Mc Ginley
> <cathal.alexandria at gnostai.org> wrote:
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> >  On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 13:02:10 +0100
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> > "L.C. Karssen" <lennart at karssen.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> > > Hi all,
> >  >
> >  > I was looking around the .alexandria directory today (trying to find
> >  > out more about bug #18308) and I came across several yaml files that
> >  > had more than one book in them. I thought that each book was suposed
> >  > to have its own yaml file named after its ISBN (and the opposite,
> >  > each yaml file contains only one book). Is my assumption right and is
> >  > my library corrupt, or am I wrong?
> >
> >  You're right. Each YAML file should have exactly one book in it.
> >
> >  Okay, this would be a major problem. I imagine it's something to do
> >  with the recent changes to the Book and Library classes - Book now
> >  contains an embedded link back to its containing Library. This is
> >  supposed to get nil'ed out before it's serialized to YAML, but this
> >  mightn't be happening everywhere.
> >
> >  Can you send me an example YAML file with this corruption?
> >  If this is the case, we have a serious showstopper bug on our hands
> >  which would require an emergency bugfix release.
> >
> >  I also had a look at the debug log for #18308, and an InvalidISBNError
> >  should not be causing a crash like that :^(
> >
> >
> >  >
> >  > Another thing I noticed is that I have several yaml files that start
> >  > with a - (dash). This makes using tools like grep impossible. Are
> >  > these files there for a reason?
> >  >
> >
> >  Yep, this is an annoyance I've noticed before. When a book doesn't have
> >  an ISBN, it's 'ident' or identifier, is generated by taking the
> >  hash-code of its title (a number generated from the title string,
> >  called a hash-code because it's often used in hashtables). Sometimes
> >  this number is negative. The YAML filename uses the 'ident', so this
> >  sometimes results in filenames beginning with a '-'.
> >
> >  grep does indeed have trouble with this, it thinks you're trying to
> >  specify an option like -77516869.yaml; but you can tell it to stop
> >  expecting options by using -- as follows:
> >  grep -i -- title *.yaml
> >
> >  It's annoying, though, and it's a 'feature' I'd love to remove somehow.
> >
> >  >
> >  > Lennart.
> >
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