[ovs-dev] [PATCH 1/2] python: Fix exceptions in IDL

[Ben Pfaff]

On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 04:07:51PM +0000, Garg, Sumit wrote:
> Committing two fixes that address python exceptions:
> 
> 1. A bool (has_lock) was being accessed as a function call
>    leading to a runtime exception.
> 
> 2. When 'alert' was turned off on a column, the code was
>    erroring out when value for that column was being set
>    in a newly inserted row. This is because the row._data
>    was None at this time.
> 
> An observation related to change #2 - it seems that new
> rows are not initialized to defaults and that's why the
> NULL error happens.
> 
> IMO a newly inserted row should automatically get
> intialized to default values. This new behavior can be
> implemented as a separate improvement sometime in the
> future.
> 
> For now, I don't see an issue with adding the additional
> check. This new check can continue as-is even after the
> new behavior is implemented.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sumit Garg <sumit at extremenetworks.com>

Thanks, I broke this into two commits (one for each fix) and applied
them to master, branch-2.4, and branch-2.3.