Debugged and added @cpattr and @mvattr. Added unittest cases for all default commands for which they are suitable. Many small bug fixes as part of that.

src/objects/manager.py

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ from django.contrib.auth.models import User
 from django.db.models.fields import exceptions 
 from src.typeclasses.managers import TypedObjectManager
 from src.typeclasses.managers import returns_typeclass, returns_typeclass_list
+from src.utils import utils
 
 # Try to use a custom way to parse id-tagged multimatches.
 IDPARSER_PATH = getattr(settings, 'ALTERNATE_OBJECT_SEARCH_MULTIMATCH_PARSER', 'src.objects.object_search_funcs')
@@ -60,7 +61,7 @@ class ObjectManager(TypedObjectManager):
         the search criterion (e.g. in local_and_global_search). 
         search_string:  (string) The name or dbref to search for.
         """
-        search_string = str(search_string).lstrip('*')        
+        search_string = utils.to_unicode(search_string).lstrip('*')        
         dbref = self.dbref(search_string)
         if not dbref:           
             # not a dbref. Search by name.
@@ -99,7 +100,7 @@ class ObjectManager(TypedObjectManager):
         if exact:            
             return [attr.obj for attr in attrs if attribute_value == attr.value]
         else:
-            return [attr.obj for attr in attrs if str(attribute_value) in str(attr.value)]
+            return [attr.obj for attr in attrs if utils.to_unicode(attribute_value) in str(attr.value)]
     
     @returns_typeclass_list
     def get_objs_with_db_property(self, property_name, location=None):
@@ -144,10 +145,12 @@ class ObjectManager(TypedObjectManager):
             lstring_key = ", db_location=location"
             lstring_alias = ", db_obj__db_location=location"
         if exact:
-            estring = "iexact"
-        matches = eval("self.filter(db_key__%s=ostring%s)" % (estring, lstring_key))        
+            estring = "__iexact"
+        else:
+            estring = "__istartswith"
+        matches = eval("self.filter(db_key%s=ostring%s)" % (estring, lstring_key))        
         if not matches:
-            alias_matches = eval("self.model.alias_set.related.model.objects.filter(db_key__%s=ostring%s)" % (estring, lstring_alias))
+            alias_matches = eval("self.model.alias_set.related.model.objects.filter(db_key%s=ostring%s)" % (estring, lstring_alias))
             matches = [alias.db_obj for alias in alias_matches]
         return matches
 
@@ -205,7 +208,7 @@ class ObjectManager(TypedObjectManager):
         
         # Test if we are looking for a player object 
 
-        if str(ostring).startswith("*"):
+        if utils.to_unicode(ostring).startswith("*"):
             # Player search - try to find obj by its player's name
             player_match = self.get_object_with_player(ostring)
             if player_match is not None:

src/objects/models.py

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ from src.server.models import ServerConfig
 from src.commands.cmdsethandler import CmdSetHandler
 from src.scripts.scripthandler import ScriptHandler
 from src.utils import logger
-from src.utils.utils import is_iter
+from src.utils.utils import is_iter, to_unicode
 
 FULL_PERSISTENCE = settings.FULL_PERSISTENCE 
 
@@ -151,6 +151,9 @@ class NickHandler(object):
                 return nick
         else:
             return Nick.objects.filter(db_obj=self.obj)
+    def has(self, nick, nick_type="inputline"):
+        "Returns true/false if this nick is defined or not"
+        return Nick.objects.filter(db_obj=self.obj, db_nick__iexact=nick, db_type__iexact=nick_type).count()
 
 #------------------------------------------------------------
 #
@@ -579,6 +582,10 @@ class ObjectDB(TypedObject):
         raw_string - raw command input coming from the command line. 
         """        
         # nick replacement - we require full-word matching.
+        
+        # do text encoding conversion 
+        raw_string = to_unicode(raw_string)
+
         raw_list = raw_string.split(None)
         raw_list = [" ".join(raw_list[:i+1]) for i in range(len(raw_list)) if raw_list[:i+1]]
         for nick in Nick.objects.filter(db_obj=self, db_type__in=("inputline","channel")):           

src/objects/objects.py

@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ class Object(TypeClass):
         string = "{c%s{n" % self.name
         desc = self.attr("desc")
         if desc:
-            string += ":\n %s" % desc
+            string += "\n %s" % desc
         exits = [] 
         users = []
         things = []