Alan, Thanks for reporting this. I'll look into this issue.
I fixed this problem temporarily by following the author redirects when rending the works page. Anand On 07-Feb-2011, at 12:41 AM, Alan Millar wrote: > I've come across a few books which will not display, because author > entries are broken. For example: > > http://openlibrary.org/works/OL9414333W > > gives > > /upstream/templates/type/work/view.tmpl: error in processing template: > TypeError: sequence item 5: expected string, instance found (falling > back to default template) > /opt/openlibrary/production/openlibrary/plugins/upstream/templates/type/work/view.html: > error in processing template: TypeError: sequence item 5: expected > string, instance found (falling back to default template) > Unable to render this page. > > Which is, of course, completely unusable to the average user. > > I have found several of these for multi-author works. I have been > able to fix them by adding "/edit" and "?m=history" on the URL, and > going from there. > > I did not fix OL9414333W so that it could stay as a reference for > examination here. However, I fixed others I did find. When I edited > OL946774W, I found three of the author fields were empty. Deleting > them made the template error go away. I was then able to use the > history to re-add the missing authors. Strangely, though, a final > diff shows the same values, just in a different order. > > http://openlibrary.org/works/OL9467774W/GREAT_FRENCH_DETECTIVE_STORIES?b=4&a=2&_compare=Compare&m=diff > > I suspect the diff isn't showing some low-level metadata detail, > something to do with that string vs instance detail. > > I did notice that the problem authors on this one, such as OL2660342A > and OL164418A, did have merges later than the work's last edit date. > I don't know if that is related or not. > > Is this the best place to report things like this? Thanks > > - Alan > _______________________________________________ > Ol-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-tech > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to > [email protected] _______________________________________________ Ol-tech mailing list [email protected] http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-tech To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to [email protected]
