764597 - 500 Error when multiple news items are set to be shown on the Affiliates.

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Firefox Affiliates Graveyard :: affiliates.mozilla.org, defect)

Description

[Osmose [:osmose, :mkelly]]

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Log into the Affiliates admin interface.
2. View the News Item admin page.
3. Ensure at least two news items have the "Show on Site" checkbox checked and save them.
4. View the My Banners page.

Expected:
The most recent news story is displayed in the news box.

Actual:
An error page is shown and the following traceback is logged:

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/data/www/affiliates-dev.allizom.org/affiliates-app/vendor/src/django/django/core/handlers/base.py", line 111, in get_response
    response = callback(request, *callback_args, **callback_kwargs)

  File "/data/www/affiliates-dev.allizom.org/affiliates-app/apps/shared/decorators.py", line 11, in decorator
    return view_func(request, *args, **kwargs)

  File "/data/www/affiliates-dev.allizom.org/affiliates-app/apps/badges/views.py", line 48, in my_badges
    {'instance_categories': instance_categories})

  File "/data/www/affiliates-dev.allizom.org/affiliates-app/apps/shared/decorators.py", line 11, in decorator
    return view_func(request, *args, **kwargs)

  File "/data/www/affiliates-dev.allizom.org/affiliates-app/apps/badges/views.py", line 62, in dashboard
    context['newsitem'] = NewsItem.objects.current()

  File "/data/www/affiliates-dev.allizom.org/affiliates-app/apps/news/models.py", line 14, in current
    return (NewsItem.objects.filter(enabled=True).order_by('-created')

  File "/data/www/affiliates-dev.allizom.org/affiliates-app/vendor/src/django/django/db/models/query.py", line 351, in get
    % (self.model._meta.object_name, num, kwargs))

MultipleObjectsReturned: get() returned more than one NewsItem -- it returned 2! Lookup parameters were {}

Comment 1

[Osmose [:osmose, :mkelly]]

Current News system will be replaced by something new during the redesign in bug 945867, so I'll call this WONTFIX.

Although we should keep this in mind as a test case depending on how the new news stuff is implemented.

Comment 2

[Matt Brandt [:mbrandt]]

QA verified wontfix