set result to None by default

2 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/src/crawler/classic_crawler.py b/src/crawler/classic_crawler.py
index d263494f..8d1c499d 100644
--- a/src/crawler/classic_crawler.py
+++ b/src/crawler/classic_crawler.py
@@ -141,8 +141,9 @@ async def insert_database(user, feed):
                 new_updated_date = dateutil.parser.parse(article['updated'])
             except Exception as e:
                 new_updated_date = existing_article.date
-                logger.exception("new_updated_date failed: " + str(e))
-                print("new_updated_date failed: " + str(e))
+                print(new_updated_date)
+                logger.exception("new_updated_date failed: ")
+                print("new_updated_date failed: ")
 
             if None is existing_article.updated_date:
                 existing_article.updated_date = new_updated_date.replace(tzinfo=None)
@@ -174,8 +175,8 @@ async def insert_database(user, feed):
 
 async def init_process(user, feed):
     # Fetch the feed and insert new articles in the database
-    articles = await insert_database(user, feed)
     try:
+        articles = await insert_database(user, feed)
         logger.debug('inserted articles for %s', feed.title)
     except Exception as e:
         print('init_process: ' + str(e))
diff --git a/src/web/controllers/abstract.py b/src/web/controllers/abstract.py
index 570fe062..58532660 100644
--- a/src/web/controllers/abstract.py
+++ b/src/web/controllers/abstract.py
@@ -103,6 +103,7 @@ class AbstractController:
 
     def update(self, filters, attrs):
         assert attrs, "attributes to update must not be empty"
+        result = None
         try:
             result = self._get(**filters).update(attrs, synchronize_session=False)
             db.session.commit()