Opened 16 years ago

Closed 16 years ago

Last modified 13 years ago

#7241 closed (fixed)

Transaction management does not catch all exceptions

Reported by: jim <jim-django@…> Owned by: nobody
Component: Database layer (models, ORM) Version: dev
Severity: Keywords:
Cc: Triage Stage: Accepted
Has patch: yes Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no

Description

Expectation:
When a view is decorated with commit_on_success, any exception raised in that view should cause a rollback of the current transaction. If no exception occurs, the transaction should be committed.

Experience:
There are many exceptions that are not caught by commit_on_success. When one of these is raised, neither a rollback nor a commit is done. This causes a TransactionManagementError in leave_transaction_management().

The only exceptions caught are subclasses of Python's built in Exception class. Since Python allows any object to be raised as an exception, this leaves an unprotected path in the code.

For example (untested, just an illustration):

@commit_on_success
def my_view(request):
   raise "simple debug exception"

The object being raised will not match commit_on_success's handler, and the error condition is triggered.

Note: Yes, string exceptions are deprecated. But they are still possible, and must be guarded against.

Simple patch attached.

Attachments (1)

catchmore.patch (437 bytes ) - added by jim <jim-django@…> 16 years ago.
simple patch

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Change History (6)

by jim <jim-django@…>, 16 years ago

Attachment: catchmore.patch added

simple patch

comment:1 by Bernd Schlapsi, 16 years ago

I think #6623 is related to this issue

comment:2 by jim <jim-django@…>, 16 years ago

Notice that this is not the classic misguided "naked except", as it re-raises immediately after the rollback.

comment:3 by Eric Holscher, 16 years ago

milestone: 1.0
Triage Stage: UnreviewedAccepted

comment:4 by Malcolm Tredinnick, 16 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed

(In [8419]) Fixed #7241 -- More robust exception catching in the transaction management
code. As pointed out in the ticket, Python still lets you raise all sorts of
odd things as exceptions (e.g. strings), so even though they're bad form, we
should still handle them. We do that cleanly now. Thanks to jim-django@…
for the patch.

comment:5 by Jacob, 13 years ago

milestone: 1.0

Milestone 1.0 deleted

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