From 11398f857339b95936ee98ea6e8f368877327482 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Bj=C3=B6rn=20Geuken?= <bgeuken@suse.de>
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2015 11:49:51 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] [webui] Fix NoMethodError for /home/requests page (issue
 #1261)

NoMethodError: undefined method `to_sym' for nil:NilClass
---
 src/api/app/controllers/webui/user_controller.rb         | 2 +-
 src/api/test/functional/webui/request_controller_test.rb | 9 +++++++++
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/api/app/controllers/webui/user_controller.rb b/src/api/app/controllers/webui/user_controller.rb
index 15cc7680b93..b6d9925c6b0 100644
--- a/src/api/app/controllers/webui/user_controller.rb
+++ b/src/api/app/controllers/webui/user_controller.rb
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ def requests
       }
     sorting_field = sortable_fields[params[:iSortCol_0].to_i]
     sorting_field ||= :created_at
-    sorting_dir = params[:sSortDir_0].to_sym
+    sorting_dir = params[:sSortDir_0].try(:to_sym)
     sorting_dir = :asc unless ["asc", "desc"].include?(params[:sSortDir_0])
     @requests = @displayed_user.requests(params[:sSearch])
     @requests_count = @requests.clone.count
diff --git a/src/api/test/functional/webui/request_controller_test.rb b/src/api/test/functional/webui/request_controller_test.rb
index 09a751fe30f..eb140fb6614 100644
--- a/src/api/test/functional/webui/request_controller_test.rb
+++ b/src/api/test/functional/webui/request_controller_test.rb
@@ -273,6 +273,15 @@ def test_requests_display_as_king
     visit_requests
   end
 
+  def test_requests
+    get "/home/requests.json"
+    assert_response :success
+    result = ActiveSupport::JSON.decode(@response.body)
+    assert_equal 2, result["sEcho"]
+    assert_equal 0, result["iTotalRecords"]
+    assert_equal [], result["aaData"]
+  end
+
   def test_succesful_comment_creation
     login_Iggy to: request_show_path(1)
     fill_in 'body', with: 'Comment Body'