Mpaa added a comment.
In T266117#6576230 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T266117#6576230>, @Fae wrote: > As my 'personal' work-around, just for UK legislation PDFs that the API flags with chunk-too-small and fails on a second upload, the pdf is trimmed of the final byte and re-attempted. In my view this is a terrible hack rather than a fix. > > However, this initially appears to be working with the files both uploading and displaying successfully, though it may later cause unpredictable errors as it's hardly an intelligent fix. Ref to this category <https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Work_around_of_byte_trimmed_for_chunk-too-small_API_error> for examples. > > Code snippet: > > rec = uptry(local, fn, dd, comment, False) > if rec in ['chunk-too-small']: > print "Chunk-too-small, so trying trimming off 1 byte" > with open(local, 'rb+') as filehandle: > filehandle.seek(-1, os.SEEK_END) > filehandle.truncate() > rec = uptry(local, fn, dd + "\n[[Category:Work around of byte trimmed for chunk-too-small API error]]", comment, False) I think a better workaround, if it works, is to use source_url in site.upload(). It delegates to API the task of fetching the file. If it works, the file is hopefully the original. TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T266117 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: Mpaa Cc: AntiCompositeNumber, Mpaa, zhuyifei1999, Aklapper, pywikibot-bugs-list, Fae, JohnsonLee01, SHEKH, Dijkstra, CBogen, Khutuck, Zkhalido, Viztor, Wenyi, Ramsey-WMF, Tbscho, MayS, Mdupont, JJMC89, Dvorapa, Poyekhali, Altostratus, Taiwania_Justo, Avicennasis, Ixocactus, Wong128hk, mys_721tx, El_Grafo, Dinoguy1000, jayvdb, Masti, Alchimista, Steinsplitter, Rxy, Keegan
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