Fix an inconsistency in category-refresh for empty string, related to #2236

evennia/typeclasses/attributes.py

@@ -181,10 +181,10 @@ class Attribute(SharedMemoryModel):
     #
 
     def __str__(self):
-        return smart_str("%s(%s)" % (self.db_key, self.id))
+        return smart_str("%s[category=%s](#%s)" % (self.db_key, self.db_category, self.id))
 
     def __repr__(self):
-        return "%s(%s)" % (self.db_key, self.id)
+        return "%s[category=%s](#%s)" % (self.db_key, self.db_category, self.id)
 
     def access(self, accessing_obj, access_type="attrread", default=False, **kwargs):
         """
@@ -257,7 +257,7 @@ class AttributeHandler(object):
                 "%s-%s"
                 % (
                     to_str(attr.db_key).lower(),
-                    attr.db_category.lower() if attr.db_category else None,
+                    attr.db_category.lower() if attr.db_category is not None else None,
                 ),
                 attr,
             )
@@ -289,7 +289,7 @@ class AttributeHandler(object):
 
         """
         key = key.strip().lower() if key else None
-        category = category.strip().lower() if category else None
+        category = category.strip().lower() if category is not None else None
         if key:
             cachekey = "%s-%s" % (key, category)
             cachefound = False
@@ -558,6 +558,7 @@ class AttributeHandler(object):
             return
 
         category = category.strip().lower() if category is not None else None
+
         keystr = key.strip().lower()
         attr_obj = self._getcache(key, category)
 

evennia/utils/create.py

@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ def create_object(
             location itself or during unittests.
         attributes (list): Tuples on the form (key, value) or (key, value, category),
            (key, value, lockstring) or (key, value, lockstring, default_access).
-           to set as Attributes on the new object.
+            to set as Attributes on the new object.
         nattributes (list): Non-persistent tuples on the form (key, value). Note that
             adding this rarely makes sense since this data will not survive a reload.
 
@@ -229,8 +229,9 @@ def create_script(
         report_to (Object): The object to return error messages to.
         desc (str): Optional description of script
         tags (list): List of tags or tuples (tag, category).
-        attributes (list): List if tuples (key, value) or (key, value, category)
-           (key, value, lockstring) or (key, value, lockstring, default_access).
+        attributes (list): List of tuples `(key, value)`, `(key, value, category)`,
+           `(key, value, category, lockstring)` or
+           `(key, value, category, lockstring, default_access)`.
 
     Returns:
         script (obj): An instance of the script created

evennia/utils/tests/test_create_functions.py

@@ -78,6 +78,45 @@ class TestCreateScript(EvenniaTest):
         assert script.key == "test_script"
         script.stop()
 
+    def test_attr_creation_func(self):
+        """
+        Test of assigning attributes during creation
+
+        """
+        attrvalue = {'test1': 1, 'test2': 'boo'}
+
+        # creation-function direct call
+        script = create.create_script(
+            key='script_broken',
+            attributes=[
+                ('testname', attrvalue, '')
+            ]
+        )
+        self.assertTrue(script)
+        self.assertEqual(script.db.testname, None)  # since the category is '' and not None
+        self.assertEqual(script.attributes.get("testname", category=''), attrvalue)
+        script.stop()
+
+    def test_attr_method_creation_malformed(self):
+        """
+        Adding the wrong type for one attribute-tuple element
+
+        """
+        attrvalue = {'test1': 1, 'test2': 'boo'}
+
+        # method-based creation
+        script, err = DefaultScript.create(
+            'scripttest2',
+            attributes=[
+                # test of wrong syntax - last element should be bool
+                ('testname', attrvalue, None, '', '')
+            ]
+        )
+        self.assertFalse(err)
+        self.assertTrue(script)
+        self.assertEqual(script.db.testname, attrvalue)
+        script.stop()
+
 
 class TestCreateHelpEntry(TestCase):