I tried making a plugin with ChatGPT that would be able to bulk create storage locatins

[joaoferreira-git]

After watching the Wan Show i tried messing with ChatGPT and I remembered that I had to create each location by hand and I tried just asking for a python script and it seemed to output a correct code, after that I used the example the user luwol03 showed in the issue he created and after that code was done i asked it to make it into a plugin and it looks like something that would work but to my untrained eye I can't really confirm if its working or not.

Could someone take a look at it?

If this things works I'm sure a couple of programmers are going to lose their jobs.
This looks to good to be true.

import inventree
import re

# Set your InvenTree API key
inventree.api_key = "your-api-key-here"

# Set the pattern for the storage location names
# For example: "Box {1-42,50-81+90,A-F,b}"
name_pattern = "Box {1-42,50-81+90,A-F,b}"

# Use a regular expression to extract the list of ranges from the pattern
ranges = re.findall(r"\{(.*?)\}", name_pattern)[0]

# Split the ranges by comma
ranges = ranges.split(",")

# Initialize the list of storage locations to add
locations = []

# Loop through the ranges and generate the list of storage locations
for range in ranges:
    # Check if the range contains a "+" symbol
    if "+" in range:
        # Split the range by "+"
        range = range.split("+")

        # Add the first part of the range as a single value
        locations.append({"name": name_pattern.replace("{" + ranges + "}", range[0])})

        # Use the second part of the range to generate a list of values
        values = range[1].split("-")

        # Check if the range uses letters
        if values[0].isalpha():
            # Generate a list of letters in the range
            values = [chr(i) for i in range(ord(values[0]), ord(values[1]) + 1)]
        else:
            # Generate a list of numbers in the range
            values = list(range(int(values[0]), int(values[1]) + 1))

        # Add each value in the range to the list of storage locations
        for value in values:
            locations.append({"name": name_pattern.replace("{" + ranges + "}", str(value))})
    else:
        # Split the range by "-"
        range = range.split("-")

        # Check if the range uses letters
        if range[0].isalpha():
            # Generate a list of letters in the range
            values = [chr(i) for i in range(ord(range[0]), ord(range[1]) + 1)]
        else:
            # Generate a list of numbers in the range
            values = list(range(int(range[0]), int(range[1]) + 1))

        # Add each value in the range to the list of storage locations
        for value in values:
            locations.append({"name": name_pattern.replace("{" + ranges + "}", str(value))})

# Loop through the list of locations and add them to InvenTree
for location in locations:
    inventree.add_storage_location(location["name"], location["description"])

This script will use a regular expression to extract the list of ranges from the given name_pattern, and then use these ranges to generate the list of storage locations. The script will automatically handle ranges that use numbers and ranges that use letters, as well as ranges that use the "+" symbol to combine multiple ranges.

# Import the InvenTree library
import inventree

# Import the required libraries for creating a plugin
from inventree.plugins import InvenTreePlugin, PluginForm


# Define the plugin class
class BulkStorageLocationPlugin(InvenTreePlugin):
    # Set the plugin name
    name = "Bulk Storage Location Creator"

    # Set the plugin description
    description = "A plugin for creating multiple storage locations in InvenTree"

    # Set the plugin form
    form = PluginForm(
        {
            "name_pattern": inventree.fields.CharField(
                label="Name pattern",
                help_text="The pattern for the storage location names (e.g. 'Box {1-42,50-81+90,A-F,b}')",
                required=True,
            )
        }
    )

    # Define the plugin function
    def run(self, form_data):
        # Extract the name pattern from the form data
        name_pattern = form_data["name_pattern"]

        # Use a regular expression to extract the list of ranges from the pattern
        ranges = re.findall(r"\{(.*?)\}", name_pattern)[0]

        # Split the ranges by comma
        ranges = ranges.split(",")

        # Initialize the list of storage locations to add
        locations = []

        # Loop through the ranges and generate the list of storage locations
        for range in ranges:
            # Check if the range contains a "+" symbol
            if "+" in range:
                # Split the range by "+"
                range = range.split("+")

                # Add the first part of the range as a single value
                locations.append({"name": name_pattern.replace("{" + ranges + "}", range[0])})

                # Use the second part of the range to generate a list of values
                values = range[1].split("-")

                # Check if the range uses letters
                if values[0].isalpha():
                    # Generate a list of letters in the range
                    values = [chr(i) for i in range(ord(values[0]), ord(values[1]) + 1)]
                else:
                    # Generate a list of numbers in the range
                    values = list(range(int(values[0]), int(values[1]) + 1))

                # Add each value in the range to the list of storage locations
                for value in values:
                    locations.append(
                        {"name": name_pattern.replace("{" + ranges + "}", str(value))}
                    )
            else:
                # Split the range by "-"
                range = range.split("-")

                # Check if the range uses letters
                if range[0].isalpha():
                    # Generate a list of letters in the range
                    values = [chr(i) for i in range(ord(range[0]), ord(range[1]) + 1)]
                else:
                    # Generate a list of numbers in the range
                    values = list(range(int(range[0]), int(range[1]) + 1))

                # Add each value in the range to the list of storage locations
               

[matmair]

Yeah that is not valid code for a plugin. It reads like it could be but it is not. There are fundamental misunderstandings about the structure in it. Might be trained on a codebase from 2020 or so.

[joaoferreira-git]

Its limited to 2021 and sometimes it just confidently starts making stuff up.

Limited knowledge of world and events after 2021

[wolflu05]

Im currently working on something like this. I already have a POC, but there is much to do with UI. But I'm currently very limited in time. But I plan to continue working on it in a few weeks.

[SchrodingersGat]

Well this was certainly an interesting read! Both the python interface code and the plugin code look "convincing" - but neither work work. I'm not sure if there is any indication that ChatGPT knows how to interface with InvenTree at all. But it does do a very good job of generating code that seems like it would do what you would ask it to. In any case, it's pretty incredible tech.

But no, none of the code above would actually "work" ;)

[joaoferreira-git]

I learned about this on The Wan Show from the LTT Channel and he was saying that some guys even made mods for arma3 just by asking my guess is that the bot made the scripts.

He also talks about a guy that asked for a advanced code with API integration and the code gave a error because it was exceed the limit of the API and after showing the error to the bot and it fixed the code to use less API calls.

This is the video I'm talking, just use the comment timestamps if you want a specific topic.
https://youtu.be/Luz82RG5PqA?t=1206