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7174 :: SIGSEGV on deleteContent

• tinygiant (orginal) [2020-11-30T06:05:03+01:00] view original

  deleteContent question ... I'm sending a deleteContent request to GitHub and successfully deleting a repo. However, after it deletes the repo, I get these errors a list of errors that ends with these:

  
  C:\Users\<user>\.choosenim\toolchains\nim-1.4.0\lib\pure\httpclient.nim(1108) deleteContentC:\Users\Ed\.choosenim\toolchains\nim-1.4.0\lib\pure\httpclient.nim(1076) responseContent
  C:\Users\<user>\.choosenim\toolchains\nim-1.4.0\lib\pure\streams.nim(284) readAll
  C:\Users\<user>\.choosenim\toolchains\nim-1.4.0\lib\pure\streams.nim(230) readData
  SIGSEGV: Illegal storage access. (Attempt to read from nil?)
  Run

  I've confirmed the repo was deleted even though I have these errors and if I run the command again, no errors (because the command fails with 404 not found, since it's already deleted). It appears to be because it's attempting to read from the bodystream component of the response type:

  Response* = ref object
      version*: string
      status*: string
      headers*: HttpHeaders
      body: string
      bodyStream*: Stream
  Run

  Which is likely nil because the content has been deleted. Any idea why this error is raised if the system knows I'm deleting and, if it's not avoidable, how do I suppress this error? It doesn't route to the generic except: block that I have.

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• xigoi (orginal) [2020-11-30T06:23:47+01:00] view original

  Have you tried using just delete instead of deleteContent? The procs ending with Content always return the body.

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• xigoi (orginal) [2020-11-30T06:26:13+01:00] view original

  Note that a segmentation fault can't be except ed because it's not an exception.

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• tinygiant (orginal) [2020-11-30T06:30:44+01:00] view original

  That seems to have done it. Would this be considered an "issue" as far as the language goes? GitHub documentation states that a delete request should return 204 No Content, but not sure if the code is returned or if, literally, nothing (nil) is returned.

  Thanks for the pointer to the other procedure.

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• xigoi (orginal) [2020-11-30T06:40:17+01:00] view original

  The proc does what it says in the documentation and is consistent with the other procs for requests.

  Connects to the hostname specified by the URL and returns the content of a DELETE request.

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• Araq (orginal) [2020-11-30T09:08:42+01:00] view original

  I think this is a stdlib bug, please report it on Nim's git repository.

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