780: Intermittent error in publish GUI: 403 permissions denied

ciao****@gmai***** (Google Code) (Is this you? Claim this profile.)
March 24, 2009 
Occasionally reviewers are not able to publish their review requests using 
the ReviewBoard GUI. Users get a blank page when they select 'publish' 
button under Firefox 3 and under IE7 they get 403 permissions denied. I 
have been able to reproduce this even with ReviewBoard admin privs. 

The work around we've found is to use the JSON API for publishing these 
reviews. So whatever is wrong it seems to be specific to the GUI.

This has only happened on a couple of reviews and I have not found any 
indication of what is different to cause the error.

What's the URL of the page containing the problem?
https://reviewboard/r/2083/

What steps will reproduce the problem?
--Problem is intermittent--
1. Create review request
2. Try to publish using the GUI
3. => 403 permissions denied error

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?


What operating system are you using? What browser?
Firefox, IE7, Centos5.2 (reviewboard server)

Please provide any additional information below.
Using ReviewBoard from source, r1556. Django release 1.0, Centos 5.2
#1 ciao****@gmai***** (Google Code) (Is this you? Claim this profile.) 
More info:
I've found that this problem is specific to using the JSON API for creating the
Review Request, then using the JSON API draft set to set an attribute, but then using
the GUI to publish the review request. If you follow those three steps you can
reproduce the problem.
#2 ciao****@gmai***** (Google Code) (Is this you? Claim this profile.) 
This appears to be limited to setting the target-people attribute (possible the
target-group too). Below is the error you get: 

Set target_people for rid=2276...
Error: server request failed...
        uri=https://reviewboard/api/json/reviewrequests/2276/publish/
        stat=fail
        code=211
        msg=You attempted to publish a review request that doesn't have an associated
draft.
Full server response:
{
  "err" : {
    "msg" : "You attempted to publish a review request that doesn't have an
associated draft.",
    "code" : 211
  },
  "stat" : "fail"
}

So the steps to reproduce:
1. use JSON create API to create a ReviewRequest
2. use the JSON draft set API to edit target-people
3. attempt to Publish in the GUI -> ERROR

The only way I can then publish the review is to set the public attribute to 1 using
the JSON API and then publishing.
chipx86
#3 chipx86 
I believe this is now fixed. Can you update your copy and try again?
  • +NeedInfo
david
#4 david 
Assuming fixed since there's been no response. Please comment if this is still a problem.
  • -NeedInfo
    +Fixed