In trunk now
On Jul 28, 1:58 pm, mwolfe02 <michael.joseph.wo...@gmail.com> wrote: > There's a generic except: in dal.py/sql.py that prevents SyntaxErrors > from being reported. > > For example, > > db = DAL('mssql://user:p...@127.0.0.1/') > > results in: > > RuntimeError: Failure to connect to DB. Tried 5 times > > instead of: > > SyntaxError: Invalid URI string in SQLDB: mssql://user:p...@127.0.0.1/ > > Unless there is some reason for ignoring SyntaxErrors that I'm not > aware of, I'd like to propose the following patch: > > diff -r e1d065e37948 -r 80311269f4f3 gluon/dal.py > --- a/gluon/dal.py Mon Jul 26 03:44:13 2010 -0500 > +++ b/gluon/dal.py Wed Jul 28 14:41:33 2010 -0400 > @@ -2039,6 +2039,8 @@ > self._adapter = ADAPTERS[prefix+self._dbname] > (self,uri,pool_size,folder,db_codec) > connected = True > break > + except SyntaxError: > + raise > except: > time.sleep(1) > if not connected: > diff -r e1d065e37948 -r 80311269f4f3 gluon/sql.py > --- a/gluon/sql.py Mon Jul 26 03:44:13 2010 -0500 > +++ b/gluon/sql.py Wed Jul 28 14:41:33 2010 -0400 > @@ -3883,6 +3883,8 @@ > return SQLDB(uri, pool_size=pool_size, folder=folder, > db_codec=db_codec, > check_reserved=check_reserved, > migrate=migrate, > fake_migrate=fake_migrate) > + except SyntaxError: > + raise > except: > time.sleep(1) > raise RuntimeError, "Failure to connect to DB. Tried 5 times"