40987 - Error message when no components are defined for a product.

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Bugzilla :: Bugzilla-General, defect, P3)

Description

[Damon Cassell]

If you create a new product, but do not create any associated components, you 
get this error when you attempt to open a new bug for that product:

>Software error:
>
>Can't use string ("") as an ARRAY ref while "strict refs" in use at
>/usr/data1/webapps/apache/htdocs/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi line
>240.

Instead of this, it would be helpful to get a nice page explaining that at 
least one component must be associated with a product before a bug can be 
opened for that product. This will spare a good deal of confusion for new 
Bugzilla administrators and users.

Regards.

Damon Cassell
Engage Technologies

Comment 1

[Damon Cassell]

Tara said in email she would check a patch into CVS shortly.  Any word on this?

Comment 2

[Tara Hernandez]

Attachment: Patch to handle error condition

Comment 3

[Jon Robertson]

This patch doesn't work.  It won't allow any bugs entered.  The problem is with 
the line

! if (0 == $::components{product}) {

that should be

! if (0 == $::components{$product}) {

Sorry.  I'm new enough that this that I'm not comfortable creating diffs yet.  
But after the above fix the patch seems to work.

Comment 4

[Jon Robertson]

That wasn't very descriptive ("seems to work").  After applying the patch and 
correcting the omitted $, I was able to enter bugs in my existing product.  
Then I created a product but didn't put and components in it.  When I tried to 
add a bug for that product I received the "need to have at least one component" 
message.

I don't know of any other testing that should be done.  But those two tests 
worked...  :)

Comment 5

[Tara Hernandez]

Feh.  Should stop pretending to be a techie and stick to my pod-headed
management job.  Anyway, "fixed".

Comment 6

[Matthew Tuck [:CodeMachine]]

Verified on my local machine.

Comment 7

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

*** Bug 31448 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

*** Bug 51842 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

*** Bug 39060 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

*** Bug 69303 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

In search of accurate queries....  (sorry for the spam)

Comment 12

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

*** Bug 76305 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 13

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

*** Bug 78675 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 14

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Moving closed bugs to Bugzilla product

Comment 15

[chaduv]

*** Bug 120907 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***