Reported by dread, 4 years ago.

Background

In the Web UI, when you rate a package it simply links to something like:

​http://ckan.net/package/rate/mke-liquor-licenses?rating=3

This creates a GET request.

This is bad because:

• Search engine crawlers follow links to find pages, and in this case end up creating a rating (although we've got a robots.txt to try and avoid this)
• There are occasions when we want to make a CKAN instance read-only, so we put a <LimitExcept? GET> Apache instruction in. But the database may still get written for these ratings.
• Best practise for web requests is for GET to be a read-only request.

Reported by rgrp, 5 years ago.

As a User or Visitor

I wish to rate a package in some way. On the package view, below Openness, there is a 'Rating' heading with the star rating which is selectable.

Rating out of 5. One user or IP, one vote.

package_rating table:

package | user | rating annakarenina | joe.bloggs.openid.com | 4 annakarenina | 154.2.5.47 | 1

Reported by dread, 3 years ago.

Occasionally see this problem when producing an error page. Here's an example

WebApp Error: <type 'exceptions.TypeError'>: You cannot set the body to a unicode value without a charset
URL: http://at.ckan.net/authorizationgroup/new
Module weberror.errormiddleware:162 in __call__
<<              __traceback_supplement__ = Supplement, self, environ
                   sr_checker = ResponseStartChecker(start_response)
                   app_iter = self.application(environ, sr_checker)
                   return self.make_catching_iter(app_iter, environ, sr_checker)
               except:
>>  app_iter = self.application(environ, sr_checker)
Module beaker.middleware:73 in __call__
<<                                                     self.cache_manager)
               environ[self.environ_key] = self.cache_manager
               return self.app(environ, start_response)
>>  return self.app(environ, start_response)
Module beaker.middleware:152 in __call__
<<                          headers.append(('Set-cookie', cookie))
                   return start_response(status, headers, exc_info)
               return self.wrap_app(environ, session_start_response)
           
           def _get_session(self):
>>  return self.wrap_app(environ, session_start_response)
Module routes.middleware:130 in __call__
<<                  environ['SCRIPT_NAME'] = environ['SCRIPT_NAME'][:-1]
               
               response = self.app(environ, start_response)
               
               # Wrapped in try as in rare cases the attribute will be gone already
>>  response = self.app(environ, start_response)
Module pylons.wsgiapp:125 in __call__
<<          
               controller = self.resolve(environ, start_response)
               response = self.dispatch(controller, environ, start_response)
               
               if 'paste.testing_variables' in environ and hasattr(response,
>>  response = self.dispatch(controller, environ, start_response)
Module pylons.wsgiapp:324 in dispatch
<<          if log_debug:
                   log.debug("Calling controller class with WSGI interface")
               return controller(environ, start_response)
           
           def load_test_env(self, environ):
>>  return controller(environ, start_response)
Module ckan.lib.base:117 in __call__
<<          # available in environ['pylons.routes_dict']    
               try:
                   return WSGIController.__call__(self, environ, start_response)
               finally:
                   model.Session.remove()
>>  return WSGIController.__call__(self, environ, start_response)
Module pylons.controllers.core:284 in __call__
<<              if log_debug:
                       log.debug("Calling Response object to return WSGI data")
                   return response(environ, self.start_response)
               
               if log_debug:
>>  return response(environ, self.start_response)
Module webob.exc:248 in __call__
<<              return []
               if not self.body and not self.empty_body:
                   return self.generate_response(environ, start_response)
               return Response.__call__(self, environ, start_response)
>>  return self.generate_response(environ, start_response)
Module webob.exc:239 in generate_response
<<              status=self.status,
                   headerlist=headerlist,
                   content_type=content_type
               )
               return resp(environ, start_response)
>>  content_type=content_type
Module webob.response:94 in __init__
<<                  if charset is None:
                           raise TypeError(
                               "You cannot set the body to a unicode value without a charset")
                       body = body.encode(charset)
                   self._body = body
>>  "You cannot set the body to a unicode value without a charset")
TypeError: You cannot set the body to a unicode value without a charset