From 151d2d6be40c05e63669882734f8ff24efb622dc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: olivier <>
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 19:14:07 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] #67: report oai-pmh errors instead of raising an exception
 for malformed identifiers

---
 telemeta/interop/oaidatasource.py | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/telemeta/interop/oaidatasource.py b/telemeta/interop/oaidatasource.py
index f71f86ae..6d589756 100644
--- a/telemeta/interop/oaidatasource.py
+++ b/telemeta/interop/oaidatasource.py
@@ -56,7 +56,11 @@ class TelemetaOAIDataSource(object):
 
     def get_record(self, id):
         """Return a specific record"""
-        type, id = id.split(':')
+        try:
+            type, id = id.split(':')
+        except ValueError:
+            return None
+            
         if (type == 'collection'):
             try:
                 record  = MediaCollection.objects.get(id=id)
@@ -68,7 +72,7 @@ class TelemetaOAIDataSource(object):
             except MediaItem.DoesNotExist:
                 return None
         else:
-            raise Exception("No such record type: %s" % type)
+            return None
 
         return self.prepare_record(type, record)
 
-- 
2.39.5