Question thread #138

[pauamma]

It's time for another question thread!

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- You may ask any dev-related question you have in a comment. (It doesn't even need to be about Dreamwidth, although if it involves a language/library/framework/database Dreamwidth doesn't use, you will probably get answers pointing that out and suggesting a better place to ask.)
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[pauamma]

OK, this appears to rule out any problem in the communication path or your browser plugins. Now a few questions to narrow down the problem (or problems) so I can try duplicating.

First, to confirm: you're observing the same thing (initial content being discarded instead of being appended to when you edit after first creating) for both entries and comments? For instance, when you first create an entry or comment with about 90 characters, then edit that entry or comment and add some extra text at the end, that extra text ends up replacing the original text instead of being appended to it, like "foo(imagine 87 more characters)bar" becoming just "bar"?

Second, for entries, are you using the old update page on that server or the new "beta" one? You can check by looking at https://www.example.org/beta where "example.org" is the domain name of your server install.

Third, do you have Javascript disabled (for your server or in general) in the browsers you've tested this with?

Fourth, can you check (using bin/ljdb or bin/dev/entrydump.pl) whether the damaged content is actually stored in the database?

[adrenalinerush]

Using the old update page. example.org/update - no beta features here (yet).

And yeah, if I start at 90 characters (I've just been grabbing Lorem Ipsum text), it'll post entries or comments. If I edit, I can append a couple characters one at a time until it totally craps out and gives that blank character. If the initial is even 91 characters, it wipes the entry/comment and throws the blank character.

So like: OG post with 90 characters: "Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has"
Edit 1: "Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has b"
Edit 2: [totally gone]


And yeah, javascript is enabled all around.

ljdb shows the user's in the database:
user: journalfortesting / userid: 5 / clusterid: 1

entrydump.pl gives me:

entry =
Can't call method "props" on an undefined value at /home/dw/dw/bin/dev/entrydump.pl line 33

But I'm sure that's me just being a dodo and not plugging in the correct arguments to get the entry.

[adrenalinerush]

I can't tell if I'm dumb or WHAT but thought I'd circle back and let you know I figured it out! I backtracked and reinstalled a my packages one at a time and the 'glitch' was in memcached - for whatever reason, the installation of that went bugger up somewhere along the way. I reinstalled it and it's functioning now. 🙌🏻

Thank you for your help!

Thanks for the update.

[pauamma]

I can't tell if I'm dumb or WHAT

If you are, I am too. :-) I didn't think of memcached as a possible cause.

Re: Thanks for the update.

[adrenalinerush]

I just KNEW it was going to be something glaringly simple that would make me facepalm when it got tracked down. 🤣 Thanks again!