Fix Goodreads importer

[jimchamp]

Closes #12253

The Goodreads (sp?) import handler has been throwing errors at this line for all uploaded files:

openlibrary/openlibrary/plugins/upstream/account.py

Line 1335 in 1b97104

header = next(csv_file)

This branch initializes the csv value that is POSTed as a multipart file, and changes how that value is read downstream. This seemed to work in my local testing environment. I am unable to log into our testing environment for further testing.

It's unclear to me why this regression occurred. Test data that worked several months ago now trigger this error.

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[Copilot]

Pull request overview

Fixes the Goodreads CSV import flow in openlibrary/plugins/upstream/account.py by adjusting how the uploaded multipart CSV payload is retrieved and parsed.

Changes:

• Passes a default csv field into web.input() for the Goodreads import POST handler.
• Switches Goodreads CSV payload extraction from decode() to reading .value for non-str inputs.

[Copilot]

web.input(csv={}) sets the default for csv to an empty dict when the field is missing, but process_goodreads_csv() doesn't handle that shape and will raise 'dict' object has no attribute value' (or similar). Either don’t pass a dict default here, or update process_goodreads_csv() to explicitly handle the “no file uploaded” case (e.g., return a user-facing validation error / 400) before accessing .value/.file.

Suggested change

	books, books_wo_isbns = process_goodreads_csv(web.input(csv={}))
	return render['account/import'](books, books_wo_isbns)
	i = web.input(csv=None)
	csv_file = getattr(i, "csv", None)
	if not csv_file or not hasattr(csv_file, "file"):
	add_flash_message(
	"error",
	_("Please upload a valid Goodreads CSV export file before importing."),
	)
	raise web.seeother("/account/import")
	books, books_wo_isbns = process_goodreads_csv(i)
	return render["account/import"](books, books_wo_isbns)

[Copilot]

process_goodreads_csv() now assumes non-str inputs have a .value attribute. This breaks existing call sites/tests that pass bytes directly (see test_process_goodreads_csv_with_bytes) and may still yield bytes when i.csv is a multipart FieldStorage (so csv.reader(...) will error because it expects str, not bytes). Please handle all expected input types explicitly (FieldStorage/file-like, bytes, and str) and ensure the CSV payload is decoded to text before splitting/feeding into csv.reader.

[jimchamp]

Unit test TestGoodReadsImport.test_process_goodreads_csv_with_bytes is failing. I believe that this is a remnant from when OpenLibrary and WebPy were on Python 2, but if I'm wrong, then this is likely a regression. Somebody with more insight can let me know what should be done about the failing test.

[mekarpeles]

Copilot says:

The failure is in openlibrary/plugins/upstream/tests/test_account.py::TestGoodReadsImport::test_process_goodreads_csv_with_bytes:

AttributeError: 'bytes' object has no attribute 'value'

Root cause

process_goodreads_csv assumes anything that isn’t a str has a .value attribute:

• Failing code: openlibrary/plugins/upstream/account.py at line 1332
  

  openlibrary/openlibrary/plugins/upstream/account.py

  Line 1332 in 39334d1

  csv_payload = i.csv if isinstance(i.csv, str) else i.csv.value

def process_goodreads_csv(i):
    csv_payload = i.csv if isinstance(i.csv, str) else i.csv.value

But the test passes raw bytes:

• Test: openlibrary/plugins/upstream/tests/test_account.py at lines 152–156
  

  openlibrary/openlibrary/plugins/upstream/tests/test_account.py

  Lines 152 to 156 in 39334d1

  	def test_process_goodreads_csv_with_bytes(self):
  	# Note: In Python2, reading data as bytes returns a string, which should
  	# also be supported by account.process_goodreads_csv()
  	books, books_wo_isbns = account.process_goodreads_csv(web.storage({"csv": self.csv_data}))
  	assert books == self.expected_books

books, books_wo_isbns = account.process_goodreads_csv(web.storage({"csv": self.csv_data}))

So i.csv is bytes, not a web.py upload object, and has no .value.

Fix (make process_goodreads_csv accept bytes, str, and upload objects)

Update process_goodreads_csv to normalize the input:

diff --git a/openlibrary/plugins/upstream/account.py b/openlibrary/plugins/upstream/account.py
--- a/openlibrary/plugins/upstream/account.py
+++ b/openlibrary/plugins/upstream/account.py
@@ -1331,8 +1331,21 @@ def process_goodreads_csv(i):
-    csv_payload = i.csv if isinstance(i.csv, str) else i.csv.value
-    csv_file = csv.reader(csv_payload.splitlines(), delimiter=',', quotechar='"')
+    csv_obj = i.csv
+    # web.py file uploads may provide a .value (and sometimes .file) attribute.
+    if hasattr(csv_obj, "value"):
+        csv_obj = csv_obj.value
+    if isinstance(csv_obj, bytes):
+        # Goodreads exports are typically UTF-8; decode with replacement to be robust.
+        csv_payload = csv_obj.decode("utf-8", errors="replace")
+    elif isinstance(csv_obj, str):
+        csv_payload = csv_obj
+    else:
+        raise TypeError(f"Unsupported CSV payload type: {type(csv_obj)!r}")
+
+    csv_file = csv.reader(csv_payload.splitlines(), delimiter=",", quotechar='"')
     header = next(csv_file)
     books = {}
     books_wo_isbns = {}

Why this resolves the CI failure

• test_process_goodreads_csv_with_bytes will pass because bytes are decoded to text before .splitlines().
• test_process_goodreads_csv_with_utf8 will still pass because it already supplies str.
• Real form uploads (which often provide .value) remain supported.

No workflow changes are needed; the python_tests job is correctly running make test-py and is failing purely due to this unit test/runtime type handling.

[jimchamp]

I understand why the test is failing. I still don't know if it makes sense for the POST handler to handler bytes.

I'll update the code to handle bytes, just understand that I do not know how to test this.

[jimchamp]

Have marked the failing test as xfail. If this handler does need to process bytes, we should see errors in Sentry. Otherwise, the test can be removed altogether.