Show database error message in the extension UI

[alexriabtsev]

Just installed Promnesia extension for my Firefox on macOS and launched server (finally got it working -> the process is not easy and straightforward).

But there is no luck saving URLs. Every page I'm visiting is marked with:
ERROR: NetworkError when attempting to fetch resource.

However I see Promnesia server running at 13131 port and Firefox extension says it can connect to backend:
Success! {"db":null,"version":"0.11.20200605"}

How can I get it working?

[alexriabtsev]

FIXED
just changed the path in config.py

Figured out:
there is two different paths:
/Users/ral/Library/Application Support/promnesia/promnesia.sqlite and /Users/ral/.local/share/promnesia/promnesia.sqlite

Index works with one path and server running with another one. I copied the db to another directory and got extension working. Now need to figure out where is the config error.

[karlicoss]

Hi! Sorry it wasn't straightforward, I don't have macos, so basically working blind here! :)

ERROR: NetworkError when attempting to fetch resource.
However I see Promnesia server running at 13131 port and Firefox extension says it can connect to backend

Yeah, I can see it's confusing, db: null indicates a problem, but it's pretty cryptic. There is a todo for it. I guess I could return db_path: {error: "Error message"}, at least it would be visible to the user.

there is two different paths:
/Users/ral/Library/Application Support/promnesia/promnesia.sqlite and /Users/ral/.local/share/promnesia/promnesia.sqlite

Hmm, that's odd! The first path looks correct, I believe this is user_data_dir on OSX:

promnesia/src/promnesia/common.py

Lines 478 to 479 in 31df71e

	def default_output_dir() -> Path:
	return Path(appdirs().user_data_dir)

But not sure how you ended up with .local/share, don't think I hardcoded it anywhere in the code. Can you share the commands you're use to index and run the server? Also the config if you don't mind. Thanks!

[alexriabtsev]

You may ask me to test whatever you need for macOS (sorry, can't present a macbook to you, yet ;) )

[karlicoss]

Implemented proper error handling & display in the UI here #164
Will be in the next release!

[karlicoss]

P.S. all released (+ extension now works even without the backend), so hopefully you can try it out!