789243 - [traceback] TypeError: string indices must be integers, not str

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Marketplace Graveyard :: Consumer Pages, defect)

Description

[krupa raj[:krupa]]

steps to reproduce:
1. Load https://marketplace-dev.allizom.org/

traceback details:
Stacktrace (most recent call last):

  File "django/core/handlers/base.py", line 89, in get_response
    response = middleware_method(request)

  File "commonware/log/middleware.py", line 26, in process_request
    if hasattr(request, 'user') and request.user.is_authenticated():

  File "django/utils/functional.py", line 184, in inner
    self._setup()

  File "django/utils/functional.py", line 248, in _setup
    self._wrapped = self._setupfunc()

  File "django/contrib/auth/middleware.py", line 16, in <lambda>
    request.user = SimpleLazyObject(lambda: get_user(request))

  File "django/contrib/auth/middleware.py", line 8, in get_user
    request._cached_user = auth.get_user(request)

  File "django/contrib/auth/__init__.py", line 98, in get_user
    user_id = request.session[SESSION_KEY]

  File "django/contrib/sessions/backends/base.py", line 39, in __getitem__
    return self._session[key]
TypeError: string indices must be integers, not str

Comment 1

[Wil Clouser [:clouserw]]

-> ashort to investigate.  I'm not sure if JR's code affected this CCing him too.

Comment 2

[Allen Short [:ashort]]

This appears to have been a transient failure due to changes on the caching backend.