[bug] Brutaldon cannot be connected to a GtS instance

[tsmethurst]

Currently Brutaldon (https://brutaldon.org/login) gives a 500 server error when trying to log into gts.superseriousbusiness.org. We should investigate why this is and make sure Brutaldon can connect to GtS.

[egon0]

Request Method: POST
Request URL: http://localhost:8002/login

Django Version: 3.2.6
Python Version: 3.9.0
Installed Applications:
['django.contrib.admin',
 'django.contrib.auth',
 'django.contrib.contenttypes',
 'django.contrib.sessions',
 'django.contrib.messages',
 'django.contrib.staticfiles',
 'widget_tweaks',
 'sanitizer',
 'django.contrib.humanize',
 'brutaldon']
Installed Middleware:
['django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware',
 'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
 'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
 'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
 'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
 'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
 'django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware',
 'brutaldon.middleware.timezone.TimezoneMiddleware']



Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/root/.local/share/virtualenvs/app-4PlAip0Q/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/core/handlers/exception.py", line 47, in inner
    response = get_response(request)
  File "/root/.local/share/virtualenvs/app-4PlAip0Q/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/core/handlers/base.py", line 181, in _get_response
    response = wrapped_callback(request, *callback_args, **callback_kwargs)
  File "/root/.local/share/virtualenvs/app-4PlAip0Q/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/views/decorators/cache.py", line 44, in _wrapped_view_func
    response = view_func(request, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/app/brutaldon/views.py", line 442, in login
    client.version = mastodon.instance().get("version")
  File "/root/.local/share/virtualenvs/app-4PlAip0Q/lib/python3.9/site-packages/decorator.py", line 232, in fun
    return caller(func, *(extras + args), **kw)
  File "/root/.local/share/virtualenvs/app-4PlAip0Q/lib/python3.9/site-packages/mastodon/Mastodon.py", line 99, in wrapper
    raise MastodonVersionError("Version check failed (Need version " + version + ")")

Exception Type: MastodonVersionError at /login
Exception Value: Version check failed (Need version 1.1.0)

it's basically the mastodon lib that only accepts versions => 1.1.0 when pulling infos from /api/v1/instance

[daenney]

This has been fixed in Brutaldon: https://gitlab.com/brutaldon/brutaldon/-/merge_requests/11 (the branch is named fix/support-gts 😄). They updated their calls to the mastodon.py library to disable the version checking.

That commit went in 5 months ago but unfortunately they haven't tagged a new version. The last one is from 3 years ago. I've verified this works fine now if you use a Brutaldon built from main. At this point all we can do is wait for them to do a release. I think we can close this now.

[tsmethurst]

Alright, thanks for investigating :)