Error when logging a character in to a non-existant room.

[Saffire]

If a player logs out, and the room their character is stored in is deleted, they are unable to log back in to the game. The following error is displayed when they try to log in:

An error occurred when loading this character.

[Saffire]

A temporary solution to this problem is to use the aput command to put the player inside an existing room.

[Justin]

This was pretty easy to fix (I thought I had done it already). If an object's container does not exist or cannot be loaded, the object is moved to the default room. Does that seem reasonable?

[Saffire]

Yep. Thats's exactly what I was thinking. I would have posted the solution with the thread, but I tinkered with it for a while and couldn't quite get it right, so I figured I'd just post it up so it was documented and then fiddle with it some more until you got around to it and fixed it.

[Justin]

In case you want to fix your copy right away instead of waiting for me to put out a new release, here is the change. Just a few lines around line 299 in storage.rb:

Code:

--- components/storage.rb       (revision 111)
+++ components/storage.rb       (working copy)
@@ -297,7 +297,11 @@
                game_objects << object

                unless object.container.nil? or game_objects.loaded? object.container
-                       load_object(object.container, game_objects)
+                       begin
+                               load_object(object.container, game_objects)
+                       rescue MUDError::NoSuchGOID, MUDError::ObjectLoadError
+                               object.container = Config.start_room
+                       end
                end
                return object
        end

[Saffire]

It works perfectly. Thanks