Errors for some specific custom and default filters #448

tiagommmelo · 2024-05-09T12:27:29Z

tiagommmelo
May 9, 2024

Hello.
I'm an advanced taskwarrior user, however I'm a novice vimwiki and taskwiki user.
I was having some issues with viewports recently and I thought it was because something was installed incorrectly or so; fortunately, one of the maintainers observed in the error messages that, because I was using custom priorities, viewports could not be created; I've eliminated the custom priorities from all tasks and edited my .taskrc file commenting out all lines where I had configured the custom priorities. This solved the issue and viewports started to work again.

Today, though, I'm having a similar issue. If I try to write the file with a custom report I defined the name as "simple", I get an error.
Below, the portion of my config file containing the simple report:

#defining custom report for tasks
report.simple.description=Simple list of open tasks by urgency
report.simple.columns=id,description.desc,entry,tags,project,urgency,priority,wtg,req,stk,star,lap,mob,oth
report.simple.sort=urgency-/
report.simple.filter=status:pending -BLOCKED -info -someday
uda.reviewed.type=date
uda.reviewed.label=Reviewed
report._reviewed.description=Tasksh review report. Adjust the filter to your needs.
report._reviewed.columns=uuid
report._reviewed.sort=reviewed+,modified+
report._reviewed.filter=( reviewed.none: or reviewed.before:now - 6days ) and ( +PENDING or +WAITING )

Now, if in my vimwiki (.md) file I try ## Daily tasks | simple , this is the error I get:

Error detected while processing function vimwiki#base#goto_index[33]..vimwiki#base#edit_file[35]..function vimwiki#base#goto_index[33]..vimwiki#base#edit_file[23]..BufWinEnter Autocommands for "<buffer=1>"..function provider#python3#Call:
line 18:
Error invoking 'python_execute' on channel 3 (python3-script-host):
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
File "/home/tiago_ubuntu/.local/share/nvim/plugged/taskwiki/taskwiki/errors.py", line 26, in wrapped_function
original_function(*args, **kwargs)
File "/home/tiago_ubuntu/.local/share/nvim/plugged/taskwiki/taskwiki/decorators.py", line 10, in wrapped_function
original_function(*args, **kwargs)
File "/home/tiago_ubuntu/.local/share/nvim/plugged/taskwiki/taskwiki/main.py", line 45, in update_from_tw
c.evaluate_viewports()
File "/home/tiago_ubuntu/.local/share/nvim/plugged/taskwiki/taskwiki/cache.py", line 247, in evaluate_viewports
port.sync_with_taskwarrior()
File "/home/tiago_ubuntu/.local/share/nvim/plugged/taskwiki/taskwiki/viewport.py", line 349, in sync_with_taskwarrior
to_add, to_del = self.get_tasks_to_add_and_del()
File "/home/tiago_ubuntu/.local/share/nvim/plugged/taskwiki/taskwiki/viewport.py", line 323, in get_tasks_to_add_and_del
matching_tasks = self.matching_tasks
File "/home/tiago_ubuntu/.local/share/nvim/plugged/taskwiki/taskwiki/viewport.py", line 300, in matching_tasks
return set(
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/tasklib/task.py", line 480, in iter
self._result_cache = self._execute()
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/tasklib/task.py", line 512, in _execute
return self.backend.filter_tasks(self.filter_obj)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/tasklib/backends.py", line 317, in filter_tasks
for line in self.execute_command(args):
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/tasklib/backends.py", line 280, in execute_command
raise TaskWarriorException(error_msg)
tasklib.backends.TaskWarriorException: TASKRC override: /home/tiago_ubuntu/.taskrc
Configuration override rc.confirmation=no
Configuration override rc.dependency.confirmation=no
Configuration override rc.recurrence.confirmation=no
Configuration override rc.json.array=off
Configuration override rc.bulk=0
Configuration override rc.context=
The expression could not be evaluated.
Command used: task rc.confirmation=no rc.dependency.confirmation=no rc.recurrence.confirmation=no rc.json.array=off rc.bulk=0 rc.context= -DELETED -PARENT ( simple ) export

At first, I thought that this error might be caused because it will not support custom reports. however, if I try ## Daily tasks | next instead, which is a built-in report, a similar error gets generated:

line 18:
Error invoking 'python_execute' on channel 3 (python3-script-host):
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
File "/home/tiago_ubuntu/.local/share/nvim/plugged/taskwiki/taskwiki/errors.py", line 26, in wrapped_function
original_function(*args, **kwargs)
File "/home/tiago_ubuntu/.local/share/nvim/plugged/taskwiki/taskwiki/decorators.py", line 10, in wrapped_function
original_function(*args, **kwargs)
File "/home/tiago_ubuntu/.local/share/nvim/plugged/taskwiki/taskwiki/main.py", line 64, in update_to_tw
c.evaluate_viewports()
File "/home/tiago_ubuntu/.local/share/nvim/plugged/taskwiki/taskwiki/cache.py", line 247, in evaluate_viewports
port.sync_with_taskwarrior()
File "/home/tiago_ubuntu/.local/share/nvim/plugged/taskwiki/taskwiki/viewport.py", line 349, in sync_with_taskwarrior
to_add, to_del = self.get_tasks_to_add_and_del()
File "/home/tiago_ubuntu/.local/share/nvim/plugged/taskwiki/taskwiki/viewport.py", line 323, in get_tasks_to_add_and_del
matching_tasks = self.matching_tasks
File "/home/tiago_ubuntu/.local/share/nvim/plugged/taskwiki/taskwiki/viewport.py", line 300, in matching_tasks
return set(
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/tasklib/task.py", line 480, in iter
self._result_cache = self._execute()
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/tasklib/task.py", line 512, in _execute
return self.backend.filter_tasks(self.filter_obj)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/tasklib/backends.py", line 317, in filter_tasks
for line in self.execute_command(args):
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/tasklib/backends.py", line 280, in execute_command
raise TaskWarriorException(error_msg)
tasklib.backends.TaskWarriorException: TASKRC override: /home/tiago_ubuntu/.taskrc
Configuration override rc.confirmation=no
Configuration override rc.dependency.confirmation=no
Configuration override rc.recurrence.confirmation=no
Configuration override rc.json.array=off
Configuration override rc.bulk=0
Configuration override rc.context=
The expression could not be evaluated.

The error is very similar. I checked on the CLI and both task simple and task next produces outputs just fine, with no errors.
What I did, then, was deleting my whole database of tasks (even the timewarrior database as well) to start fresh. Then I created a simple task only to have at least one task for the filters to have something to look for. It turns out that with only one tasks in Taskwarrior DB, CLI works fine and I'm still getting the same errors when using viewport.

A copy (in txt) of my current taskrc config file is below with the most recent changes. I know my custom UDAs are not the issue because if I filter it differently, even with all custom UDAs filled, it gets filtered fine. File below:
taskrc copy.txt

I also defined, for the only task I have, the piorirty 'H' for the only task I have and taskwiki is still able to filter it (it adds the 3 exclamation marks as expected in vimwiki)

Is it something in my config file that is breaking the next report? Can Taskwiki handle custom reports just like mine? Thanks in advance