[patch] Quick Copy to pastebin

[dummy@…]

Hi,

I read that there is an "little, easy improvements" open. Since the owner was 'just starting' I tried it myself and thought that it wasn't really difficult to solve.

Regards,
Dirk

[dummy@…]

Quick Copy to pastebin

[Adrian Holovaty]

Very cool. I think we'll set up a pastebin on djangoproject.com, and point this patch at it, rather than relying on pastebin.com, because pastebin.com has been flaky lately.

[Chris Rose <chris@…>]

Its worth noting that the source for pastebin.com is GPL and can be obtained from ​http://pastebin.com/pastebin.tar.gz, however I suspect any tool used on the djangoproject.com site will be developed with Django :p

[Marek Kubica]

The pastebin at paste.e-scribe.com is in fact written in Python using Django (source available) and highlights all kinds of Django-related code like Python, Python-Transcripts (interactive Python) and Django-templates. Quite nice.

[Simon G. <dev@…>]

This has been in the Quick Easy improvements page in the wiki for years.

[Marc Fargas <telenieko@…>]

Replying to Simon G. <dev@simon.net.nz>:

This has been in the Quick Easy improvements page in the wiki for years.

And it's on it's way to be "Accepted" for years! :P
If the patch is ok, why isn't it "Ready for checkin" ?

On the other side, I'd rather place a big box telling that pressing the button you're about to publish your traceback on a public site ;)

[Adrian Holovaty]

The reason we're waiting on this is because the patch uses pastebin.com, whereas it should use Django's custom pastebin (or maybe dpaste). Django doesn't have a custom pastebin on djangoproject.com, but we might be able to use dpaste.com if Paul B. is willing to commit to maintaining it.

[Paul Bx <pb@…>]

Sorry for the lag. Simon G and I have now exchanged email about this -- consider me commited.

[Simon G. <dev@…>]

I've attached a patch which modifies the original from dummy (at) habmalnefrage.de to use dpaste. Note that this also escapes a few other values in debug.py that should be escaped.

@ Paul Bx: I've added a a "source" parameter which you can use to track stats.

[Malcolm Tredinnick]

I was this close to committing this, but then I tried it out first. Unfortunately, it's not very visually appealing. On Firefox, at least, the button gets a bit lost in amongst all the traceback text.

We also probably need a short (one sentence?) description of what will happen when you push the button. Something like "this will send the traceback to a public website so you can share it with others. You will have a chance to confirm the paste before it is made public" -- but use better wording. I agree with Marc Fargas that some explanation is probably necessary.

However, making it look less crushed together is the real priority here. We always win "prettiest debug page" at the country fair and adding this would hurt our chances. Apart from that, it's good.

[Erik Karulf]

Assuming Fredrik/Simon doesn't mind, I'll pretty this up at the November 29th sprint.

[Erik Karulf]

Updated to include some extra environment information

[Erik Karulf]

The patch also removes some extraneous text (per Jacob's recommended)

[xian]

django-dpaste-prettified.diff is up and it prettifies everything and fixes some usability/extra code bits in the earlier patches.

[Erik Karulf]

Updated the prettified code per some recommendations from fellow sprinters

[Malcolm Tredinnick]

(In [6820]) Fixed #2437, #6091 -- Added "paste to dpaste" button to debug page. Thanks,
Christian Metts, Erik Karulf, Simon Greenhill, dummy@….