CSV extension cannot parse csv file (but works "on page")

[dajare]

Hi - this looks like a very useful extension. I have tried using it with current Yellow, but have an odd behaviour:

• if I use the "on page" option (with a Markdown code block), the extension works perfectly; but
• if I try to make it parse a file with [csv myfile.csv], then I get an error message, and yellow.log reports:
  2021-10-15 09:07:16 error Can't parse file 'system/extensions/csv.php'!

I have tried:

• csv with delimiters and without (is the file the problem?)
• changing the CsvDirectory value in yellow-system.ini to full path (home/example/public_html/yellow/media/downloads)
• changing permissions on the csv file to 777 (from 644)

but nothing seems to help. Is there something else I can look into? Thanks for your help with this!

[schulle4u]

Thanks for your report. Can you please activate the debug mode or check your webserver's log file for additional errors? In any case the csv file needs to have delimiters, and the extension should recognize the most common ones (comma, semicolon, tabstops). However this shouldn't cause the extension to crash if its missing.

[dajare]

Thanks - and sorry, by "delimiters" I only meant quote-marks in the CSV - I just copy/pasted the country data example you give for the markdown block approach. That's my "test.csv" file.

Here's the error dump:

Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined method YellowToolbox::normalisePath() in /home/account/public_html/yellowsite/system/extensions/csv.php:22 Stack trace:
#0 /home/account/public_html/yellowsite/system/extensions/core.php(580): YellowCsv->onParseContentShortcut(Object(YellowPage), 'csv', 'test.csv', 'block')
#1 /home/account/public_html/yellowsite/system/extensions/markdown.php(3889): YellowPage->parseContentShortcut('csv', 'test.csv', 'block')
#2 [internal function]: YellowMarkdownParser->_doAutoLinks_shortcutBlock_callback(Array)
#3 /home/account/public_html/yellowsite/system/extensions/markdown.php(3878): preg_replace_callback('/^\s\[(\w+)(....', Array, '[csv test.csv]')
#4 /home/account/public_html/yellowsite/system/extensions/markdown.php(669): YellowMarkdownParser->doAutoLinks('[csv test.csv]')
#5 /home/account/public_html/yellowsite/system/extensions/markdown.php(3518): MarkdownParser->runSpanGamut('[csv test.csv]')
#6 /home/account/public_html/yellowsite/system/extensions/markdown.php(613): MarkdownExtraParser- in /home/account/public_html/yellowsite/system/extensions/csv.php on line 22

I checked the server error.log, and there was nothing to see. 🤷‍♂️

So — it looks related to filename parsing somehow? If there's anything else I can do, please tell me! Thanks.

[schulle4u]

OK, it looks like your core extension is outdated. There was a small API change in recent versions, and I didn't care about backwards compatibility for the csv extension. Please update all extensions, then the error should be gone. If your browser doesn't show the updates, you could be affected by another issue. Sorry for the trouble. 😀

[dajare]

OK, it looks like your core extension is outdated.

Nailed it. That was easy enough! Thanks for the help.

The moral of the story: it pays to keep your system up to date!