Rules_model_qt won't work - AttributeError: 'unicode' object has no attribute 'toString'

[erm3nda]

This happens when you hit "new regexp rule"

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/m3nda/Descargas/track-master/track_qt/rules_model_qt.py", line 84, in setData
    regex_str=str(value.toString())
AttributeError: 'unicode' object has no attribute 'toString'
Abortado (`core' generado)

To reproduce that:

• Open it python track or ./track. Qy5 windows opens.
• Click on new regexp rule. Nothing happens than "Connect to server".
• If you hit it again, now it just clear the current regexp items, and show them as blank.
• Write anything into one of them and click outside of that element to "save".
• Then voila: Abortado (`core' generado)

I am currently using Ubuntu16.04, Python 2.7.12-final and Pytqt5 (as per my version of Python2)

[stderr-enst]

I just started looking into track, but my guess is, that this is just a consequence from migrating the application from python2 to python3.

Your issue is kind of easily resolved. Just drop the .toString() part for value in track_qt/rules_model_qt.py:setData(), since value is already a string:

#Makes it editable:
def setData(self, index, value, role):
    if value != "":
        regex_str=str(value.toString())
        try:
            re.compile(regex_str)
            is_valid = True
        except re.error:
            is_valid = False
        if(is_valid):
            self._rules[index.row()][index.column()-1] = str(value.toString())
            self.modified_rules.emit()
            self.save_to_disk()
        else:
            self._rules[index.row()][index.column()-1] = "invalid regex"
    return True

Sadly after succeeding with that, we run into another issue, since save_to_disk() does not exist at all.

As a workaround you can add your rules by adding them to ~/.track/category_rules, while the track-server is not running. (I had to kill it using python track-cli quit)

[stderr-enst]

Just had a look at the history of rules_model_qt.py.
save_to_disk() went out in 2e663db
The old mechanism appears to be replaced with a new one in time_track.py, which probably wasn't meant to be called from rules_model_qt.py:setData() directly.
So I guess self.save_to_disk() should either be removed or something else has to take its place?

edit:
well, removing the function call and both toString()s resolved the crash, but the file containing the rules is not updated.