Re: Checker for GC82FK7 dumps

Hi all,

I am using a script based on " Altered Generic Jasmer Challenge Checker " for our German Jasmer Challenge: https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC82FK7/61227

As of lately, I got informed by frankenfan (GC nickname), that the checker runs into an exception:

Error message:
Caught exception

Error log:
[string ""]:247: attempt to concatenate a boolean value

Script Output:
Getting finds. Filter is
Array
(
[minHiddenDate] => 2001-02-01
[maxHiddenDate] => 2022- 7-18
[country] => Germany
)
.XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.....Total months: 258, leeway: 18
Start date: February 2001
End date: July 2022
258 258

This does not happen for all users.
It would be great if someone could look into the script and find a correction for the bug.

Kind regards
DaDieDose!

I believe this is due to GC73GZQ which was created by a cacher who has since removed their account. Please contact Gentse Haviken, who wrote that script (you can do so from the checker page).

Hi sumbloke,

thanks for looking into the issue.
I already reached out to Gentse Haviken some time ago... and then created this post.
In order to get a functioning checker I cloned Gentse Haviken's checker and left out the owners in the results list.
Thus, I would consider this ticket closed.

However, I think someone needs to fix PGC.ProfileId2Name which causes trouble when the user has asked for deletion.
I will create a bug report.

Kind regards
DaDieDose!



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/01/2022 09:45AM by DaDieDose!. (view changes)

I already notified PGC HQ and they will sort this out next week

The mentioned script should be fixed now.

PGC.ProfileId2Name() returns false (or null? dont' recall) whenever it can't return data. The LUA script then tried to concatenate that value with a string which LUA doesn't allow.

The owner was only relevant for the output. I wrapped the output line of code in an if statement using dash as username (and no link) whenever the owner was unknown.

      if cache.owner_id ~= nil then
        table.insert(html, "<tr><td>" .. date .. '</td><td><img src="' .. types[cache.type] .. '" /> <a href=\"http://coord.info/'; .. cache.gccode .. '">' .. cache.cache_name .. " (" .. cache.gccode .. ")</a></td><td><a href=\"http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?id="; .. cache.owner_id .. '">' .. PGC.ProfileId2Name(cache.owner_id) .. "</a></td><td>" .. cache.hidden .. "</td><td>" .. cache.visitdate .. "</td></tr>")
      else
        table.insert(html, "<tr><td>" .. date .. '</td><td><img src="' .. types[cache.type] .. '" /> <a href=\"http://coord.info/'; .. cache.gccode .. '">' .. cache.cache_name .. " (" .. cache.gccode .. ")</a></td><td>-</td><td>" .. cache.hidden .. "</td><td>" .. cache.visitdate .. "</td></tr>")
      end

Thank you magma1447,

I can confirm https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC82FK7/61227 is now working fine.
I reverted to that script and removed my cloned script.