Tested and fix some bugs: One bug found not fixed: pub/sub crashing sometimes. Revert refactor?

README.md

@@ -102,6 +102,12 @@ As a teacher, you can't manage students registered to your course.
 
 The search looks for title, description and level fo the course. There's no advanced search for the moment.
 
+---
+
+### Pub/sub
+
+Sometimes, I really don't know why, some message published does not appear at all to notifications page. It concerns around 20 % of all messages.
+
 ## Bugs
 
 If you see any bugs, please tell me. I really tried my best by testing every feature every time at every change, but I can miss some tricky things. So please, feel free to mail me at corentin.lemaire@etu.uca.fr to report any bug!

redis_app/utils/model.py

@@ -73,7 +73,15 @@ def register_redis(name, role):
 # Allows a user to login
 def login_redis(name, role):
     # We just check if the user exists
-    return getPersonIdNameRole(name, role)
+    person_id = getPersonIdNameRole(name, role)
+
+    # Checking if the person_id is not False or ""
+    if not person_id:
+        # Not a person id
+        return False
+    
+    # Getting the person associating with the person id
+    return getPerson(person_id.split(":")[1])
 
 # Allows to change the profile of a user. person_id = current person id, name = name requested, role = role requested
 def changeProfile_redis(person_id, name, role):
@@ -392,9 +400,18 @@ def get_message(*courses_id):
     # Listening for new messages
     for message in pub_sub.listen():
         # Checking if the message if a message as we published
-        if message["type"] != 'pmessage':
+        if message.get("type", "") != 'pmessage':
             # Not a message that is interesting for us
             continue
+        
+        # If not a dict, continuing to avoid problems
+        if not isinstance(message, dict):
+            continue
+
+        # When the data or channel is null
+        if not message.get("data", "") or not message.get("channel", ""):
+            # Just continuing
+            continue
         # Found an interesting message!
         break
     # Returning this message

redis_app/views.py

@@ -114,10 +114,13 @@ def courses(request, error_message="", success_message=""):
         return render(request, 'login.html', {'person': Person(name="", role=""), "error_message": "You must login!"})
     
     # Getting up the person id (only the id part without person:)
-    person_id = getPersonId(person).split(":")[1]
+    person_id = getPersonId(person)
+    if not person_id:
+        # Person id not found
+        return render(request, 'courses.html', {'person': person, 'courses': courses, 'error_message': 'Person id not found.'})
 
     # Getting all courses of the person (if he's a teacher, taking all courses where he's teacher ; if he's a student, taking all courses where he's registered to)
-    courses = getCoursesFromPerson(person_id)
+    courses = getCoursesFromPerson(person_id.split(":")[1])
     return render(request, 'courses.html', {'person': person, 'courses': courses, 'error_message': error_message, 'success_message': success_message})
 
 # Called after filled the update profile form
@@ -285,8 +288,9 @@ def create_course_form(request):
     # Only handling POST request
     if request.method == 'POST':
         # Getting information from the form
-        course_title = request.POST['title']
+        # Replacing ' by ` because it breaks everything
-        course_summary = request.POST['summary']
+        course_title = request.POST['title'].replace('\'', '`').replace(':', '')
+        course_summary = request.POST['summary'].replace('\'', '`').replace(':', '')
         course_level = request.POST['level']
         course_places = request.POST['places']
 
@@ -321,8 +325,8 @@ def update_course_form(request, course_id):
     # Only handling POST request
     if request.method == 'POST':
         # Retriving the POST information
-        course_title = request.POST['title']
+        course_title = request.POST['title'].replace('\'', '`').replace(':', '')
-        course_summary = request.POST['summary']
+        course_summary = request.POST['summary'].replace('\'', '`').replace(':', '')
         course_level = request.POST['level']
         course_places = request.POST['places']