December 2022 - Koha-devel - lists.koha-community.org

x-koha-query header doesn't support UTF-8 data
by David Cook 05 Dec '22

05 Dec '22

Hi all, It turns out the “x-koha-query” header can’t support any value that isn’t ISO-8859-1 encoded. That really limits the number of languages that can use that header, so I think it has to be removed from Koha. See https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=32401 for more details. I bumped into the problem via the DataTables in the “Pending Orders” table when I was trying to search through the pending orders using an Arabic string. It just silently failed, so I started digging. When I opened the F12 tools, clicked “Sources”, and clicked “Pause on caught exceptions”, and then ran my search… I got a nice “Paused in debugger” message along with the caught exception: Failed to execute 'setRequestHeader' on 'XMLHttpRequest': String contains non ISO-8859-1 code point. Feel free to try it yourself using Arabic (خمسة), Chinese (五), or whatever language you like that requires UTF-8. I find the kohaTable code in koha-tmpl/intranet-tmpl/prog/js/datatables.js to be unwieldy so hesitant to touch it myself. I think Agustin, Tomas, and Jonathan have the best understanding of it, so they might be best positioned to fix this one. Not sure if everything will need to be refactored to POSTs or if the queries can be put into the “q” parameter, but anyway… just raising awareness about it here for now. Curious to hear what people think. Cheers, David Cook Senior Software Engineer Prosentient Systems Suite 7.03 6a Glen St Milsons Point NSW 2061 Australia Office: 02 9212 0899 Online: 02 8005 0595

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OS upgrade for my linode (running bugs, splinter, the dashboard etc)
by Chris Cormack 04 Dec '22

04 Dec '22

Hi All I am about to do any OS upgrade for the server that runs a bunch of our services. I figure now is the best time post the major release. It will be going from 18.04 to 20.04 (maybe to 22.04 later also) Chris

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OAI set mappings
by David Cook 02 Dec '22

02 Dec '22

Hi all, Do many people use "OAI set mappings"? I was feeling a bit frustrated because there's no obvious way to group rules using the Boolean AND/OR rules. I wanted a rule like the following but there was no clear mechanism to add those groupings. (952$a eq BRANCH) && ( (952$c eq GEN) || (952$c eq AV) ) After some trial and error, I realized you have to do the following: (952$a eq BRANCH && 952$c eq GEN) || (952$a eq BRANCH && 952$c eq AV) -- The OR rule seems to just bind together single rules or rules joined together with AND. I mean it's workable but it was a bit confusing and I don't think the documentation makes that clear. What do you folk think? David Cook Senior Software Engineer Prosentient Systems Suite 7.03 6a Glen St Milsons Point NSW 2061 Australia Office: 02 9212 0899 Online: 02 8005 0595

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Tomorrow (Friday 2): Patch testing session to help enhancements and bug fixes to be released
by Victor Grousset/tuxayo 01 Dec '22

01 Dec '22

Hi :) This is for the support providers that aren't used to testing patches and any provider that knows libraries where someone could be interested. To be forwarded to librarians, system librarians, educators, devs, sysadmins and other people that could be interested in contributing to Koha. Let's meet Friday the 2nd at any moment in the following timeframe: 13h-20h UTC&UK / 8h-15h US East / 5h-12h US West The place is https://visio.chapril.org/koha (the text chat can be opened with the 4th button at the bottom: 🗨️) Reminder of the modalities: The idea is to test patches to contribute to Koha. The biggest bottleneck for having more bugs fixes and enhancements is patch testing. Thus this call for getting together as Koha users. No need for particular skills, just basic Koha usage. You can come an leave at any moment, even for a short time it's possible to get simple stuff moving forward. We will use a VoIP call with chat tool to speak and eventually screenshare. It's possible to join without sound and only use chat. So if you are at the front desk and there are not much patrons you can still test patches ^^ So, whichever communication mode is the most convenient for you. No need to have a local Koha instance. Just with a web browser we can use the sandboxes [1] to have temporary Kohas to test most patches and do whatever we want without bad consequences. Here is a resource about how to test patches using sandboxes: https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Sandboxes Cheers, [1] https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Sandboxes -- Victor Grousset/tuxayo

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