When submitting form requests containing multiple values where only a
single value is expected, an (internal) AttributeError is raised, e.g.:

File "roundup/cgi/templating.py", line 538, in __getitem__
    value = form[item].value.strip()
AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'value'

A way to deal with this problem is to rewrite

form[item].value

as

form.getfirst(item)

(This also solves http://psf.upfronthosting.co.za/roundup/meta/issue111
in a cleaner way than has been done before.)

Please find attached a patch, containing a) a new test generating the
exception, and b) a couple of fixes like the above, making the failure
from a) disappear.

OK to check in ?

The change does mean there's potential to hide errors in the tracker
template, but I guess it's better to not crash, so sure, apply the patch.

Richard Jones wrote:
> Richard Jones <richard@mechanicalcat.net> added the comment:
> 
> The change does mean there's potential to hide errors in the tracker
> template, but I guess it's better to not crash, so sure, apply the patch.

Indeed, it may hide errors in a template. Or someone mistyped an URL, 
or... So I believe making Roundup ignore such errors is better than to 
raise an exception. (One could think of adding support for logging 
incorrect queries...)

Thanks,
		Stefan