Re: [python-bugzilla] [BUG] Server error: buf must be a byte string

[Jani Nikula]

On Sun, 16 Nov 2014, Cole Robinson <crobinso(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:
>  On 11/14/2014 04:15 AM, Jani Nikula wrote:
> >
> > The command-line client fails with python 2.7.8 as follows:
> >
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >    File "/usr/local/bin/bugzilla", line 1253, in <module>
> >      main()
> >    File "/usr/local/bin/bugzilla", line 1212, in main
> >      _do_info(bz, opt)
> >    File "/usr/local/bin/bugzilla", line 728, in _do_info
> >      products = bz.getproducts(include_fields=include_fields)
> >    File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/bugzilla/base.py", line
> 757, in getproducts
> >      self._products = self._getproducts(**kwargs)
> >    File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/bugzilla/base.py", line
> 891, in _getproducts
> >      product_ids = self._proxy.Product.get_accessible_products()
> >    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xmlrpclib.py", line 1224, in __call__
> >      return self.__send(self.__name, args)
> >    File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/bugzilla/base.py", line
> 168, in _ServerProxy__request
> >      ret = ServerProxy._ServerProxy__request(self, methodname, params)
> >    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xmlrpclib.py", line 1578, in __request
> >      verbose=self.__verbose
> >    File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/bugzilla/base.py", line
> 263, in request
> >      return self._request_helper(url, request_body)
> >    File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/bugzilla/base.py", line
> 250, in _request_helper
> >      raise e
> > BugzillaError: buf must be a byte string
> >
> > Server error: buf must be a byte string
> >
> > I've bisected this to
> >
> > commit e3f17d7db5907ea629f31fbc892576fdf9ccec4e
> > Author: Josef Stribny <jstribny(a)redhat.com&gt;
> > Date:   Tue Jun 3 15:27:08 2014 +0200
> >
> >      Convert request_body to string for Python 3
> >
> > and confirmed that reverting the commit from current master fixes the
> > issue.
> >
> > BR,
> > Jani.
> >
>
>  Thanks for the report. Is this against bugzilla.redhat.com? If not, is it 
>  against a public bugzilla instance I can test against? And if so, can you give 
>  an example command line that reproduces? 
Seems to be reproducible with simply:

$ bugzilla info -p
$ bugzilla --bugzilla=https://bugs.freedesktop.org/xmlrpc.cgi info -p
$ bugzilla --bugzilla=https://bugzilla.kernel.org/xmlrpc.cgi info -p

This is behind a proxy; haven't had a chance to try without yet.

(Not sure if it's related in any way, but some of my scripts doing login
and bug modification seem to be broken as well. Debugging saga
continues.)

BR,
Jani.


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Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Technology Center