[openstack-dev] [Nova] python 3 tests hate my exception handling
Tim Burke
tim at swiftstack.com
Wed Jan 4 03:23:38 UTC 2017
Looks like keystoneauth1.exceptions.http.__all__ includes a from_response function. Maybe add a if isinstance(..., BaseException) before appending?
Tim
> On Jan 3, 2017, at 6:48 PM, Michael Still <mikal at stillhq.com> wrote:
>
> So...
>
> Our python3 tests hate [1] my exception handling for continued vendordata implementation [2].
>
> Basically, it goes a bit like this -- I need to move from using requests to keystoneauth1 for external vendordata requests. This is because we're adding support for sending keystone headers with the request so that the external service can verify that it is nova talking. That bit isn't too hard.
>
> However, keystoneauth1 uses different exceptions to report errors. Conveniently, it has variables which list all of the connection and http exceptions which it might raise. Inconveniently, they're listed as strings, so I have to construct a list of them like this:
>
> # NOTE(mikal): keystoneauth makes me jump through hoops to get these
> # exceptions, which are listed as strings. Mutter.
> KEYSTONEAUTH_EXCEPTIONS = [TypeError, ValueError]
> for excname in ks_exceptions.connection.__all__ + ks_exceptions.http.__all__:
> KEYSTONEAUTH_EXCEPTIONS.append(getattr(ks_exceptions, excname))
>
> Then when it comes time to catch exceptions from keystoneauth1, we can just do this thing:
>
> except tuple(KEYSTONEAUTH_EXCEPTIONS) as e:
> LOG.warning(_LW('Error from dynamic vendordata service '
> '%(service_name)s at %(url)s: %(error)s'),
> {'service_name': service_name,
> 'url': url,
> 'error': e},
> instance=self.instance)
> return {}
>
> Which might be a bit horrible, but is nice in that if keystoneauth1 adds new connection or http exceptions, we get to catch them for free.
>
> This all works and is tested. However, it causes the py3 tests to fail with this exception:
>
> 'TypeError: catching classes that do not inherit from BaseException is not allowed'
>
> Which is bemusing to me because I'm not very smart.
>
> So, could someone smarter than me please look at [1] and tell me why I get [2] and how to not get that thing? Answers involving manually listing many exceptions will result in me making a sad face and sarcastic comment in the code, so something more elegant than that would be nice.
>
> Discuss.
>
> Thanks,
> Michael
>
>
> 1: http://logs.openstack.org/91/416391/1/check/gate-nova-python35-db/7835df3/console.html#_2017-01-04_01_10_35_520409 <http://logs.openstack.org/91/416391/1/check/gate-nova-python35-db/7835df3/console.html#_2017-01-04_01_10_35_520409>
> 2: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/415597/3/nova/api/metadata/vendordata_dynamic.py <https://review.openstack.org/#/c/415597/3/nova/api/metadata/vendordata_dynamic.py>
>
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