[PATCH] xmlrpc: Avoid trying to marshall None for people with no name

[Doug Anderson]

If a person sent patches with no real name, they may have None for
their name.  In this case just use their email address as their name.

The previous pwclient error that would show up looks like:

  $ pwclient list -w anonymous at example.com
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File ".../pwclient", line 631, in <module>
      main()
    File ".../pwclient", line 570, in main
      action_list(rpc, filt, submitter_str, delegate_str, series_str)
    File ".../pwclient", line 316, in action_list
      ids = person_ids_by_name(rpc, submitter_str)
    File ".../pwclient", line 241, in person_ids_by_name
      people = rpc.person_list(name, 0)
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xmlrpclib.py", line 1224, in __call__
      return self.__send(self.__name, args)
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xmlrpclib.py", line 1578, in __request
      verbose=self.__verbose
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xmlrpclib.py", line 1264, in request
      return self.single_request(host, handler, request_body, verbose)
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xmlrpclib.py", line 1297, in single_request
      return self.parse_response(response)
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xmlrpclib.py", line 1473, in parse_response
      return u.close()
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xmlrpclib.py", line 793, in close
      raise Fault(**self._stack[0])
  xmlrpclib.Fault: <Fault 1: "<type 'exceptions.TypeError'>:cannot marshal None unless allow_none is enabled">

This is the server side fix to the pwclient workaround I send out
titled "pwclient: Handle servers that barf on users with no name"

Signed-off-by: Doug Anderson <dianders at chromium.org>
---
 apps/patchwork/views/xmlrpc.py |   10 +++++++++-
 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/apps/patchwork/views/xmlrpc.py b/apps/patchwork/views/xmlrpc.py
index 283eb34..a69c858 100644
--- a/apps/patchwork/views/xmlrpc.py
+++ b/apps/patchwork/views/xmlrpc.py
@@ -167,11 +167,19 @@ def project_to_dict(obj):
 def person_to_dict(obj):
     """Return a trimmed down dictionary representation of a Person
     object which is OK to send to the client."""
+
+    # Make sure we don't return None even if the user submitted a patch
+    # with no real name.  XMLRPC can't marshall None.
+    if obj.name is not None:
+        name = obj.name
+    else:
+        name = obj.email
+
     return \
         {
          'id'           : obj.id,
          'email'        : obj.email,
-         'name'         : obj.name,
+         'name'         : name,
          'user'         : unicode(obj.user).encode("utf-8"),
         }
 
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