unexpected keyword argument 'salt'

[Andreas Kaiser]

Hi,

using latest trunk and in admin I've created a new simple app. If I try to run this app, I get a ticket.

<type 'exceptions.TypeError'> __init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'salt'

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Traceback (most recent call last): File "E:\web2py-2-work\gluon\restricted.py", line 205, in restricted exec ccode in environment File "E:/web2py-2-work/applications/uittime/models/db.py", line 43, in <module> auth = Auth(db, hmac_key=Auth.get_or_create_key(), salt=True) TypeError: __init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'salt'

In the example App the line for Auth initialation looks like:

auth = Auth(db)

Is this an error in trunk for create a new app?

Andreas

[Massimo Di Pierro]

You have created a new app using an experimental web2py in trunk. It created a models/db.py with Auth(...,salt=True). 

This option has been removed from trunk (there is no more salt attribute, we always salt) therefore you have to edit your db.py and remove salt=True.

This is not a backward compatibility issue because no app created with stable is broken.

Massimo

[Andreas Kaiser]

Hi Massimo,

I know, from now the password is always salted. But the automatic creation of an app produces this error (in trunk).

Andreas

[Niphlod]

probably you need to update your welcome.w2p too (i.e. your welcome.w2p is a zip of an old scaffolding app.)
Try to delete it if you have it in the same folder web2py.py is (it will be automatically recreated starting from applications/welcome)

[Andreas Kaiser]

Hi Niphlod,

thats the way! Thank you!

Andreas