kb grep "IndexError: list index out of range"

[ArchWizard56]

Hi! It's me again. I've been working on migrating my notes into kb, and I ran across this error. I'm planning on looking into it a bit, but I wanted to open the issue first.

Expected Behavior

kb ought to display a list of artifacts containing the word, as shown in https://github.com/gnebbia/kb#grep-through-the-knowledge-base

Actual Behavior

kb throws an IndexError. This only seems to occur if the grep successfully matches an artifact. Nothing seems to change if I use the -v flag. It works if I use the -m flag to show the matching lines instead of the artifacts.

Ghostbin with full error: https://ghostbin.co/paste/tyqqos

Steps to Reproduce the Problem

1. Run kb grep with any word that exists in the knowledge base.

Specifications

• Version: kb-git from the AUR.
• Platform: Arch Linux

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[gnebbia]

Dear Sir, I am unable to reproduce the error, can we try to isolate the issue by being more specific about when this throws an exception?

[hexiyou]

I had the same problem on Cygwin：

[gnebbia]

Dear Sir, this looks a lot like an older version bug, could you try to uninstall kb and try to re-install the latest version?
Thanks a lot

[gnebbia]

Can you let me know if the bug persists on the latest version?

[hexiyou]

Can you let me know if the bug persists on the latest version?

I already uninstall local version and reinstall from github repository，then i got the same problem.

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[gnebbia]

How can i reproduce this? Could you send me some articles from your knowledge base? so that I can inspect them? Probaby related to some UTF-8 char? Did you try deleting your knowledge base and trying to import it again?

You can do something like:
kb add ./myelectornicsstuff/* --category "electronics"
kb add ./cheatsheet/* --category "cheatsheet"
kb add ./protocol/* --category "protocol"
kb add ./config/* --category "config"

To quickly reimport your artcles from text files.
Could you do that test for me?
Because I am not able to reproduce the issue.
Thanks a lot!

[gnebbia]

Can you let me know if the bug persists on the latest version?

I already uninstall local version and reinstall from github repository，then i got the same problem.

Ok, I think I was able to track the issue. I think that updating kb was not enough since this is related to how kb used to store in previous versions artifacts.

Hence, I htink you should basically delete your knowledge base and re-import it.

Unluckily these were issues of previous versions of kb on how data was stored. These issues are fixed with the latest version.

[prokaryont]

Hi,

i found that the problem (also?) occurs when the title of an artifact contains spaces. Reproducing the error:

kb add -t 'win style name' -b win
kb grep win

The cause seems that get_filename_parts_wo_prefix() parses the title of the artifacts incorrectly.

Instead of the expected two element tuple of the form [(category, title)], the returned list contains a tuple ('default', 'win', 'style', 'name'). Later, when results are fetches with db_get_artifacts_by_filter(), the category parameter is default/win/style. The call returns an empty list and when the result is indexed the IndexError is raised.

Quick fix for the users until the issue is resolved: remove spaces/backslashes from your artifacts' titles.

For parsing the path correctly, the pathlib module might help. I'm not sure why backslashes are removed. Is this done to ensure windows compatibility?