http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=11032 Bug ID: 11032 Summary: Validate passed records in Biblio.pm Change sponsored?: --- Product: Koha Version: master Hardware: All OS: All Status: NEW Severity: enhancement Priority: P5 - low Component: MARC Bibliographic data support Assignee: gmcharlt@gmail.com Reporter: colin.campbell@ptfs-europe.com QA Contact: testopia@bugs.koha-community.org We've all seen Biblio.pm giving the error 'can't call method fields on an undefined value' for various reasons. They usually cause confusion or panic as a low level error gets thrown at the user with no apparent relation to their current operation. The problem is that many of Biblio's routines are rather optimistically written so that it thinks you've passed a MARC::Record object you have and it assumes that nothing could every go wrong in this best of all possible worlds. Routines should at least check they have a defined record before trying to process it, and should log a stack trace so that the cause can be determined in the case of the error. Merely passing a low level error to the end user is non-productive. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.