Re: libsoup-CRITICAL **: soup_session_real_requeue_message: assertion 'item != NULL' failed

[Graham Leggett <minfrin sharp fm>]

On 09 Oct 2015, at 12:23 PM, Graham Leggett <minfrin sharp fm> wrote:

> Picking this apart some more, and stepping through the code, I see that during 
> soup_session_requeue_message() there is an attempt to find the message in the queue using 
> soup_message_queue_lookup(), and soup_message_queue_lookup() returns NULL, causing the assertion failure.
>
> Picking apart soup_message_queue_lookup(), the message is in fact there in the queue, but marked as 
> “removed”, and so the message is ignored, thus returning NULL.
>
> According to the docs at 
> https://developer.gnome.org/libsoup/stable/SoupSession.html#soup-session-requeue-message we’re told "This 
> causes msg to be placed back on the queue to be attempted again.”, however this doesn’t seem to happen in 
> this case, and the docs are silent on the circumstances where this call won’t work, or what the 
> prerequisites are for using the call.
>
> Can anyone shed any light on the soup_session_requeue_message() and how it is supposed to work?

Confirming that libsoup’s retry functionality does appear to be broken:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=646835

I’ve raised another bug requesting that the docs be fixed in the meantime:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=756285

Regards,
Graham
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