Opened 13 years ago

Closed 13 years ago

Last modified 12 years ago

#14711 closed (fixed)

MonthMixin.get_previous_month incorrect under certain conditions

Reported by: Mark Sundstrom Owned by: nobody
Component: Generic views Version: dev
Severity: Keywords:
Cc: Triage Stage: Ready for checkin
Has patch: yes Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no

Description

In the class-based generic views, MonthMixin.get_previous_month will give an incorrect result when allow_empty is False and there are no records that exist for the first day of the previous month.

For example, consider the Books model in the generic_views regression test cases, with 3 books with the pubdates:

2010-09-01
2010-10-02
2010-11-03

/dates/books/2010/oct/ should return a context where previous_month is 2010-09-01
and
/dates/books/2010/nov/ should similarly return 2010-10-01

However, in the second case, 2010-09-01 is returned instead. This is because the date that is passed to the helper function, _get_next_prev_month, (i.e., naive_result), is 2010-10-01, and the subsequent database lookup is for a record before to that date. Hence, the existing record dated 2010-10-02, is skipped and the previous month is returned instead.

Changing MonthMixin.get_previous_month to instead pass in the last day of the previous month, instead of the first day, fixes this problem.

Test demonstrating the problem and a patch for django.views.generic.dates.py included. (patch fixes 3 typos also)

Attachments (4)

dates.diff (1.6 KB ) - added by Mark Sundstrom 13 years ago.
Patch for dates.py
tests.diff (2.4 KB ) - added by Mark Sundstrom 13 years ago.
test case demonstrating the problem
test_case.py (1.1 KB ) - added by Mark Sundstrom 13 years ago.
the test case that should go in generic_views/dates.py (I can't get the tests.diff to upload)
14711.diff (4.2 KB ) - added by Mark Sundstrom 13 years ago.
Same test and fix as before, but all combined into one diff

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Change History (8)

by Mark Sundstrom, 13 years ago

Attachment: dates.diff added

Patch for dates.py

by Mark Sundstrom, 13 years ago

Attachment: tests.diff added

test case demonstrating the problem

by Mark Sundstrom, 13 years ago

Attachment: test_case.py added

the test case that should go in generic_views/dates.py (I can't get the tests.diff to upload)

comment:1 by Łukasz Rekucki, 13 years ago

Triage Stage: UnreviewedAccepted

The "tests.diff" actually got uploaded. It's the Trac that sometimes has trouble displaying patches.

by Mark Sundstrom, 13 years ago

Attachment: 14711.diff added

Same test and fix as before, but all combined into one diff

comment:2 by Julien Phalip, 13 years ago

Triage Stage: AcceptedReady for checkin

comment:3 by Russell Keith-Magee, 13 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed

In [15438]:

Fixed #14711 -- Corrected the calculation for the previous month in generic date views. Thanks to msundstr for the report and patch.

comment:4 by Jacob, 12 years ago

milestone: 1.3

Milestone 1.3 deleted

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