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comparison of NilClass with Time failed (only fails with other blogs) #43
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this is a fun one
This feed http://dustycloud.org/blog/index.xml produces this error
*** error: comparison of NilClass with Time failed
but only fails when I run it together with all of the other feeds... run on its own with no other blogs in the .ini file, works fine.
This is the obnoxiously long debug log:
https://github.com/Identosphere/identity-blogcatcher/raw/master/weirdbug.txt
This is the site that causes fail not failing on its own.
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Identosphere/identity-blogcatcher/master/weirdnotbug.txt
not sure what I'm expecting here, but I spent so much time chasing this down, I couldn't not report
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geraldb commentedon Jul 10, 2022
Thanks for reporting the error. Cheers.
infominer33 commentedon Jan 18, 2023
ok, I figured out finally this happens with a blog that doesn't have a published date.
I went to a sqlite browser and found the offending entries, but I do noticed they had other date formats saved in the database such as "updated"
so ideally pluto would check other possibilities, instead of failing when there is no published date
geraldb commentedon Jan 18, 2023
Thanks for the update. If possible can you post the web feed entry that would really help (including makeing a test case / unit so it won't happen again).
The date uses fallbacks - see https://github.com/feedreader/pluto/blob/master/pluto-models/lib/pluto/models/item.rb#L43 but sure there are way too many different dates so it is hard to say what date causes the problem. Maybe it is just a bug in the template (merge) and not in the feed fetcher. Sorry I can only speculate. All the best. Cheers. Prosit 2023!