Guard against obscure bug in test setup #3308
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If you try to freeze time to before 2011 you get the following obscure exception from somewhere within itsdangerous: ``` timestamp = base64_encode(int_to_bytes(self.get_timestamp())) _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ num = -1 def int_to_bytes(num): > assert num >= 0 E AssertionError ``` Something in there is baselining `timestamp` to `0` at the start of 2011. Which means that trying to freeze time to before then results in a negative timestamp. This is a very non-obvious exception to see, so hopefully raising a specific exception instead will save others some time.
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It seems like the timestamp thing was a bug in the version of itsdangerous that we are using that has now been fixed (pallets/itsdangerous#46). So we could just try and bump itsdangerous instead - we shouldn't need to pin it to |
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If you try to freeze time to before 2011 you get the following obscure exception from somewhere within itsdangerous:
Something in there is baselining
timestampto0at the start of 2011. Which means that trying to freeze time to before then results in a negative timestamp.This is a very non-obvious exception to see, so hopefully raising a specific exception instead will save others some time.