[Bug 551526] Re: Package is incompatible with repository version of the main Transmission app's RPC

[Luca Falavigna]

I uploaded 0.4 in Debian. New upstream version is compatible with
transmission >= 1.8, while current one generates tracebacks as shown
above. It definitely needs an update.

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Package is incompatible with repository version of the main Transmission app's RPC
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Status in “transmissionrpc” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
Status in “transmissionrpc” package in Debian: Fix Released

Bug description:
Binary package hint: python-transmissionrpc

Description:Ubuntu lucid (development branch)
Release:	10.04

python-transmissionrpc:
  Installed: 0.3-2
  Candidate: 0.3-2
  Version table:
 *** 0.3-2 0
        500 http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/ubuntu/ubuntu/ lucid/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

The squeeze version of python-transmissionrpc uses transmission RPC version 1.7x

The current version of transmission in squeeze is 1.92 which uses the newer trunk version - http://trac.transmissionbt.com/browser/trunk/doc/rpc-spec.txt

Unfortunately there has been a breaking change in the spec. Many attributes have been moved into the 'trackerStats' array - e.g. seederCount.

The following script will demonstrate the problem:

***
#!/usr/bin/python

import transmissionrpc

tc = transmissionrpc.Client('localhost', port=9091, user='transmission', password='transmission')

torrent = tc.info(1)[1]

print torrent.trackerStats[0]['seederCount']
***

Actual output:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./transmission-control", line 9, in <module>
    print torrent.trackerStats[0]['seederCount']
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/transmissionrpc/transmission.py", line 86, in __getattr__
    raise AttributeError('No attribute %s' % name)
AttributeError: No attribute trackerStats

Expected output:
<an integer>

I have tried my test script with version 4.0 of transmissionrpc it works correctly.

Regards
AllenS