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Alternator uses a common function get_typed_value() to read the values
of key attribute and confirm they have the expected type (key attributes
have a fixed type in the schema). If the type is wrong, we want to print
a "Type mismatch" error message.
But the current implementation did the checks in the wrong order, and
as a result could print a "Malformed value object" message instead of a
"Type mismatch". That could happen if the wrong type is a boolean, map,
list, or basically any type whose JSON representation is not a string.
The allowed key types - bytes), string and number - all have string
representations in JSON, but still we should first report the mismatched
type and only report the "Malformed object" if the type matches but the
JSON is faulty.
In addition to fixing the error message, we fix an existing test which
complained in a comment (but ignored) that the error message in some
case (when trying to use a map where a key is expected) the strange
"Malformed value object" instead of the expected "Type mismatch".
The next patch will add an additional reproducer for this problem and
its fix. That test will do:
```
with pytest.raises(ClientError, match='ValidationException.*mismatch'):
test_table_gsi_6.put_item(Item={'p': p, 's': True})
```
I.e., it tries to set a boolean value for a string key column, and
expect to get the "Type mismatch" error and not the ugly "Malformed
value object".
Signed-off-by: Nadav Har'El <nyh@scylladb.com>
Scylla in-source tests.
For details on how to run the tests, see docs/dev/testing.md
Shared C++ utils, libraries are in lib/, for Python - pylib/
alternator - Python tests which connect to a single server and use the DynamoDB API unit, boost, raft - unit tests in C++ cql-pytest - Python tests which connect to a single server and use CQL topology* - tests that set up clusters and add/remove nodes cql - approval tests that use CQL and pre-recorded output rest_api - tests for Scylla REST API Port 9000 scylla-gdb - tests for scylla-gdb.py helper script nodetool - tests for C++ implementation of nodetool
If you can use an existing folder, consider adding your test to it. New folders should be used for new large categories/subsystems, or when the test environment is significantly different from some existing suite, e.g. you plan to start scylladb with different configuration, and you intend to add many tests and would like them to reuse an existing Scylla cluster (clusters can be reused for tests within the same folder).
To add a new folder, create a new directory, and then
copy & edit its suite.ini.