did a basic fix for this in the api handler lib. r913 makes it so that when pulling a char list it just returns an empty list instead of failing. this should avoid interrupting any other functionality.

After updating the instance with your change:

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/Django-1.4-py2.6.egg/django/core/handlers/base.py", line 89, in get_response
    response = middleware_method(request)

  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/Django-1.4-py2.6.egg/django/middleware/common.py", line 67, in process_request
    if (not urlresolvers.is_valid_path(request.path_info, urlconf) and

  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/Django-1.4-py2.6.egg/django/core/urlresolvers.py", line 531, in is_valid_path
    resolve(path, urlconf)

  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/Django-1.4-py2.6.egg/django/core/urlresolvers.py", line 420, in resolve
    return get_resolver(urlconf).resolve(path)

  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/Django-1.4-py2.6.egg/django/core/urlresolvers.py", line 298, in resolve
    for pattern in self.url_patterns:

  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/Django-1.4-py2.6.egg/django/core/urlresolvers.py", line 328, in url_patterns
    patterns = getattr(self.urlconf_module, "urlpatterns", self.urlconf_module)

  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/Django-1.4-py2.6.egg/django/core/urlresolvers.py", line 323, in urlconf_module
    self._urlconf_module = import_module(self.urlconf_name)

  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/Django-1.4-py2.6.egg/django/utils/importlib.py", line 35, in import_module
    __import__(name)

  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/ecm-2.0.5.2.dev-py2.6.egg/ecm/urls.py", line 25, in <module>
    from ecm.views.account.forms import PasswordChangeForm, PasswordResetForm, PasswordSetForm

  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/ecm-2.0.5.2.dev-py2.6.egg/ecm/views/account/forms.py", line 35, in <module>
    from ecm.apps.common import api

  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/ecm-2.0.5.2.dev-py2.6.egg/ecm/apps/common/api.py", line 118

    try:

   ^

IndentationError: unexpected indent

the indention-error should be fixed. dunno about the rest.

Hey guys,

i'm really NOT ok with this "catch all" thing.

The handling of such an error should be done in the calling modules like i did here : source:ecm/apps/hr/tasks/users.py#L43

well the reason i didn't is that this should be getting caught elsewhere. otherwise we have alot of validation code spread out and that's bad practice. so the whole common/api system should handle it in the background rather than in the tasks that are accessing them.