Description

Browsing this repo:

fails with a 500 HTTP error and message 'directory'. The repository has been ingested recently and seems to still exist upstream.

Revisions and Commits

rDWAPPS Web applications
	rDWAPPSb438cf620d54 browse/snapshot_context: Improve error handling for missing branches

Mentioned Here: T1304: Web UI: fail to render some repositories with 500 error "'NoneType' object is not subscriptable"

zack triaged this task as High priority.Nov 6 2018, 9:50 PM

zack created this task.

I have also stumbled across a similar case today.

When trying to browse an origin, the web app will grab the latest successfull snapshot.
In our case, the recent snapshot is null (see https://archive.softwareheritage.org/api/1/origin/160262/visits/)
so the previous one was grabbed (https://archive.softwareheritage.org/api/1/snapshot/2f90787f6afaf3f3984c5dce158c7c24c421e52f/).

Unfortunately, all the branches of this snapshot point to revisions not present in the archive, and so this error appears.

This seems similar to what was observed in T1304.