Review Request 121913: Prevent querying attica with invalid categories

[Harald Sitter]

> On Jan. 8, 2015, 12:01 p.m., Aleix Pol Gonzalez wrote:
> > libmuon/backends/KNSBackend/KNSBackend.cpp, line 170
> > <https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/121913/diff/1/?file=339049#file339049line170>
> >
> >     m_categories.isEmpty()?

lol, now I am ashamed


- Harald


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On Jan. 8, 2015, 9:47 a.m., Harald Sitter wrote:
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> (Updated Jan. 8, 2015, 9:47 a.m.)
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> Review request for Kubuntu and Muon Package Management Suite.
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> Repository: muon
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> Description
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> For as of right now unknown reasons looking for providers
> plasmoids.knsrc and getting opendesktop.org and then asking it for valid
> categories can return no category match for plasmoids.
> Which in turn makes us query for content pertaining to an invalid category.
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> What happens is that Provider::searchContents will come back with content
> matching every category of that provider (and every name), so we are
> looking at thousands of entries in 100-entry batches to receive which is
> neither fast nor efficient nor anything really.
> To safe guard against this sort of misbehavior explicitly remove all
> ?possible-category? entries that have not been matched up to a valid
> Attica::Category and return if there are none to search for.
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> Random background:
> m_categories keys get filled based on configuration values for possible
> resources, only in categoriesLoaded those entries are then matched up with
> actual categories the provider knows about. If one of the expected keys
> does not exist on the Provider we have a dangling entry in the Map ala
> <"Kitten", Category()>. There is no point in hurling those at Attica
> regardless of the cause that ultimately causes the present category
> problems. This is worsened by the fact that muon-updater needs to wait
> for all resources to fetching=false before it can display anything which
> means that having KSNBackend stuck in fetching on account of getting
> all the data a provider has on everything will block the entire upgrade
> and either making it appear as though muon is broken or there are no
> updates.
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> Diffs
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>   libmuon/backends/KNSBackend/KNSBackend.cpp edc4f0ac6d2060930ab00c698a60cff74ad64107 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/121913/diff/
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> Testing
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> without patch: muon-updater never shows anything (as long as opendesktop is resolved as provider, which actually doesn't happen all that often for some reason Oo)
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> patch & make & make install & muon-updater => everything awesome again
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> Thanks,
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> Harald Sitter
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