add a useless print statement to work around a weird issue we have with sqlalchemy...

this is the second occurrence of that issue and a better solution is clearly needed
in the mix, record.todict() now expects a tuple of types to exclude; this way we can use isinstance natively

diff --git a/sfa/managers/registry_manager.py b/sfa/managers/registry_manager.py
index 5291125..6049ebb 100644 (file)
--- a/sfa/managers/registry_manager.py
+++ b/sfa/managers/registry_manager.py
@@ -288,8 +288,15 @@ class RegistryManager:
                 records = dbsession.query(RegRecord).filter_by(authority=hrn).all()
 #                logger.debug("non recursive mode, found %d local records"%(len(records)))
             # so that sfi list can show more than plain names...
-            for record in records: augment_with_sfa_builtins (record)
-            record_dicts=[ record.todict(exclude_types=[InstrumentedList]) for record in records ]
+            for record in records:
+                # xxx mystery - again this useless statement is key here so that
+                # resulting records have their __dict__ field actually in line with the
+                # object's contents; was first observed with authorities' 'name' column
+                # that would be missing from result as received by client
+                # record.todict() is the place where __dict__ is used
+                print "DO NOT REMOVE ME before augment_with_sfa_builtins, record=%s"%record
+                augment_with_sfa_builtins(record)
+            record_dicts = [ record.todict(exclude_types=(InstrumentedList,)) for record in records ]
     
         return record_dicts
     
@@ -486,7 +493,7 @@ class RegistryManager:
                 record.email = email
         
         # update the PLC information that was specified with the record
-        # xxx oddly enough, without this useless statement, 
+        # xxx mystery: oddly enough, without this useless statement, 
         # record.__dict__ as received by the driver seems to be off
         # anyway the driver should receive an object 
         # (and then extract __dict__ itself if needed)

diff --git a/sfa/storage/record.py b/sfa/storage/record.py
index 9fcab19..a4a87b4 100644 (file)
--- a/sfa/storage/record.py
+++ b/sfa/storage/record.py
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ from datetime import datetime
 from sfa.util.xml import XML
 from sfa.trust.gid import GID
 
+from sfa.util.sfalogging import logger
+
 class Record:
 
     def __init__(self, dict=None, xml=None):
@@ -33,19 +35,18 @@ class Record:
         # fallback
         return "** undef_datetime **"
     
-    # it may be important to exclude relationships, which fortunately
+    #
+    # need to filter out results, esp. wrt relationships
+    # exclude_types must be a tuple so we can use isinstance
     # 
     def todict (self, exclude_types=None):
-        if exclude_types is None: exclude_types=[]
-        d=self.__dict__
-        def exclude (k,v):
-            if k.startswith('_'): return True
-            if exclude_types:
-                for exclude_type in exclude_types:
-                    if isinstance (v,exclude_type): return True
-            return False
-        keys=[k for (k,v) in d.items() if not exclude(k,v)]
-        return dict ( [ (k,d[k]) for k in keys ] )
+        if exclude_types is None:
+            exclude_types = ()
+        d = self.__dict__
+        def exclude (k, v):
+            return k.startswith('_') or isinstance (v, exclude_types)
+        keys = [ k for k, v in d.items() if not exclude(k, v) ]
+        return { k : d[k] for k in keys }
     
     def toxml(self):
         return self.save_as_xml()