Remote add to content server using server directory instead of local directory

[Velk]

With calibre version 3.36.

Setup:

One windows 10 machine running calibre and content server.

One ubuntu linux machine with calibre installed but not running.

When I run calibredb on the linux machine to add books, e.g.

calibredb add --username USER --password PASS --with-library http://windows_machine:8000 /home/user/book_name/book.epub

everything works as expected.

When I try to use the -1, or 1 book per directory option to import at the directory level though, i.e.

calibredb add --username USER --password PASS --with-library http://windows_machine:8000 /home/user/book_name -1

It returns

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "site-packages\calibre\srv\cdb.py", line 56, in cdb_run
  File "site-packages\calibre\db\cli\cmd_add.py", line 103, in implementation
  File "site-packages\calibre\db\cli\cmd_add.py", line 84, in format_group
  File "site-packages\calibre\startup.py", line 117, in local_open
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: u'E:/home/user/book_name/book.epub'

Note the unexpected E: that's been tacked on to the path - it seems to have stuck paths from the content server and from the machine running calibredb together somehow.

The server log has

Unhandled exception in state: State: sized_read Client: 192.168.0.2:55344 Request: POST /cdb/cmd/add/0 HTTP/1.1
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "site-packages\calibre\srv\loop.py", line 569, in tick
  File "site-packages\calibre\srv\http_request.py", line 361, in sized_read
  File "site-packages\calibre\srv\http_request.py", line 220, in read
  File "tempfile.py", line 627, in write
  File "tempfile.py", line 537, in _check
  File "tempfile.py", line 542, in rollover
  File "tempfile.py", line 475, in NamedTemporaryFile
  File "tempfile.py", line 244, in _mkstemp_inner
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

This setup used to work prior to an upgrade to 3.34 - I'm not sure which version broke it, as I skipped a few prior to 3.34

[kovidgoyal]

You need to use the -r option as well

[kovidgoyal]

Actually, no this is likely an issue because of the linux + windows combination, I'll look into it when I have a moment.

[kovidgoyal]

That should take care of it:

https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibr...616c24a98ff57d