cannot call getBranches on a source package using the API

It appears there is no IHasBranches for Distribution Source Packages.

My branch to fix 271029 will get rid of the OOPS, possibly decreasing this bug's priority, but I don't think the OOPS is the problem here. That launchpadlib code in the example should actually work.

Why is this not Critical? It is an oops?

As of today I get a failure, but not an oops. By the letter of the law perhaps that means it's not critical, but that seems like a dissatisfying reason to deescalate the bug:

HTTPError: HTTP Error 401: Unauthorized
Response headers:
---
content-length: 108
content-type: text/plain
date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 10:22:18 GMT
server: zope.server.http (HTTP)
status: 401
vary: Accept,Accept-Encoding
via: 1.1 wildcard.staging.launchpad.net
x-powered-by: Zope (www.zope.org), Python (www.python.org)
---
Response body:
---
('getBranches', <lp.registry.model.distributionsourcepackage.DistributionSourcePackage object at 0xa69ead0>)
---

that's also a shoddy error body.

On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 11:23 PM, Martin Pool <email address hidden> wrote:
> As of today I get a failure, but not an oops.  By the letter of the law
> perhaps that means it's not critical, but that seems like a
> dissatisfying reason to deescalate the bug:

Its absolutely a great reason to downgrade the bug: If this API had
never OOPsed, this bug would never have been critical.

We use OOPSes to determine when we have to Jump To It and Fix A Major
Problem: it is thus important that that signal is clean, and thats why
oopses are all critical (so that when a real emergency hits we know
about it). This bug is now just a nonfunctional bit of the API, which
never was functional, and isn't muddying that diagnostic signal.

It is something we should do sooner rather than later and that is why
it is High, not Low.

If you want it done sooner, please either escalate it, or submit a patch :)

Fixed in stable r16026 <http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~launchpad-pqm/launchpad/stable/revision/16026>.