POO Bug & Wish List

Crashing Bugs

• Attempting to use the editor on .parents (and possibly other built-in properties) can crash the server, as in this traceback:

    File "poo.py", line 1883, in gUpdate
      ob.DoUpdate()
    File "poo.py", line 1224, in DoUpdate
      if self._editObj != None: self.doEdit( cmd )
    File "poo.py", line 1303, in doEdit
      if state == 'DONE': self.endEdit(1)
    File "poo.py", line 1317, in endEdit
      setattr( self._editObj, self._editProp, tuple(self._editBuf) )
    File "poo.py", line 755, in __setattr__
      self.setParents(value)
    File "poo.py", line 706, in setParents
      raise "ParamError", `p` + " is not a POO object"
  ParamError: '#111' is not a POO object

• Crash after abrupt disconnect, with traceback shown here:

  Traceback (innermost last):
    File "poosock.py", line 381, in ?
      NetUpdate() # loop until done
    File "poosock.py", line 239, in NetUpdate
      Disconnect(u,"disconnected")
    File "poosock.py", line 150, in Disconnect
      user.POOuser.Logout()
    File "poo.py", line 1176, in Logout
      del gLocals[self]

Annoying Bugs

• Can't use 'with' in a page -- a parsing problem, e.g.:

  poo>@page Joe with This is a test with more testing.
  Joe with This is a test is not logged in.
  

• Disconnects sometimes not recognized -- a few times I've found a player apparently logged in but inactive for days; in reality, they dropped the connection long ago, but POO didn't realize it.

Cosmetic Bugs

• Feedback in $wiz.newuser always says "Coder such-and-so" even when the new user is not, in fact, a Coder.

Documentation & Help

• @describe ought to be listed under "help preferences".

Feature Requests

• Use 're' instead of 'regex' -- the former is preferred as of Python 1.5, though the latter will be around for a while.
• Use 'cPickle' instead of 'pickle' -- the former is much faster (may not be possible, since you can't override pickling in cPickle as we need to do).
• Wizards need an @boot command to kick players off the system (mainly for when they've disconnected, but POO doesn't recognize it).