With only single state AP access, run into errors

[kevinschaul]

We have access to the /WA/ directory. (And I'm working on getting full access in the meantime.) But when I try to retrieve information seemingly specific to Washington, I'm running into issues.

I assume it's from the /inits/ paths, which we apparently don't have access to.

        self.results_file_path = "/%(name)s/flat/%(name)s.txt" % {'name': name}
        self.delegates_file_path = "/%(name)s/flat/%(name)s_D.txt" % {'name': name}
        self.race_file_path = "/inits/%(name)s/%(name)s_race.txt" % {'name': name}
        self.reporting_unit_file_path = "/inits/%(name)s/%(name)s_ru.txt" % {'name': name}
        self.candidate_file_path = "/inits/%(name)s/%(name)s_pol.txt" % {'name': name}

Is this something worth hacking on, to add some sort of config option to allow orgs with only their state's access to grab certain results?

[palewire]

What method are you using to access the data?

[kevinschaul]

get_state('WA')

I think I've found the issue, though, and it isn't a permissions thing. I'll keep you updated.

[kevinschaul]

Just found the delegates=False kwarg. That's the ticket. Maybe a better error message could help with this?

[palewire]

We havn't had to the chance to test the software with different AP access levels, only our own. So I'm not surprised there are some quirks when people have different access levels. So you don't have access to that delegates folder?

[kevinschaul]

I do not have access to /Delagate_Tracking, or to /US_topofticket/. And there is no such file /WA/flat/WA_D.txt, so that was the error for get_state().

I also get errors for get_topofticket() and get_delegate_summary().

[palewire]

Sounds like we might have a bad default.

[schwanksta]

get_topofticket will only work if you have access to the topofticket directory on the FTP servers. It's one of their packages they sell. I'd have to check get_delegate_summary, but it probably pulls from a global file you don't have access to instead of the /WA/ delegates, I suppose.