[Helma-user] "Invalid Prototype Name"

[Hannes Wallnoefer]

2007/3/28, Juerg Lehni <juerg at scratchdisk.com>:
> The message could be a bit more specific about what's going on, i.e.:
>
> No prototype defined for prototype mapping "PROTO" - Using default
> prototype "DEFAULT".

Thanks, I committed this. Hope I didn't make any mistake.

hannes


> On 28 Mar 2007, at 14:14, Hannes Wallnoefer wrote:
>
> > Hi Paul,
> >
> > what this error means is that we got an object from the database whose
> > _prototype column contains a value - in this case "email" - that is
> > not a valid prototype name.
> > "using default" in this context means that the object will use the
> > default prototype associated with that database table.
> >
> > So please check if any table has the value "email" in a column mapped
> > as _prototype, and that "email" in your app. If otherwise, this would
> > be a bug.
> >
> > I admit that the error message is not really very comprehensible. I
> > had to look at the code myself to understand what it means. Any
> > suggestions are welcome.
> >
> > hannes
> >
> > 2007/3/28, Paul Alexandrow <paul at alexandrow.org>:
> >> Hi List,
> >>
> >> Currently debugging an huge application I did not write, I'm
> >> greateful
> >> for any help on the following log message, which I'm not able to
> >> reproduce, but, according to the customer, occurrs repeatedly:
> >>
> >> Invalid prototype Name: email - using default
> >>
> >> I already dug into Helma's source where that Message originates,
> >> but was
> >> not able to fully understand how things work there (basically the
> >> extensionMap in the DbMapping class) in the time I had available.
> >>
> >> My first - and unfortunately only - guess was, that this might
> >> come from
> >> a db entry with the _prototype column set to "email", while no
> >> prototype
> >> "email" is defined. This was not the case.
> >>
> >> Any help on how this log message can be triggered is highly
> >> appreciated
> >> as it would supply me with valuable information about what to
> >> search for
> >> in the application I'm sitting on.
> >>
> >> TIA,
> >> Paul
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