[Freeipa-devel] IPA Python API

[Drew Erny]

If I add the lines

if not api.Backend.rpcclient.isconnected():
     api.Backend.rpcclient.connect()


before I call the api, the code works. Problem (pretty much) solved.

On 06/23/2015 04:36 PM, Drew Erny wrote:
> Resurrecting this thread, because the problem is getting me again.
>
> If I go through the python interpreter and import the code that calls 
> the ipalib, and then manually call it myself the way the webserver 
> does, the code works. If the same code is run in the course of the web 
> server process, I get the error:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File 
> "/home/derny/freeipa/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/cherrypy/_cprequest.py", 
> line 670, in respond
>     response.body = self.handler()
>   File 
> "/home/derny/freeipa/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/cherrypy/lib/encoding.py", 
> line 217, in __call__
>     self.body = self.oldhandler(*args, **kwargs)
>   File 
> "/home/derny/freeipa/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/cherrypy/_cpdispatch.py", 
> line 61, in __call__
>     return self.callable(*self.args, **self.kwargs)
>   File "freeipa_community_portal/app.py", line 39, in POST
>     errors = user.save()
>   File "freeipa_community_portal/model/user.py", line 33, in save
>     self._call_api()
>   File "freeipa_community_portal/model/user.py", line 45, in _call_api
>     mail=self.email
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ipalib/frontend.py", line 
> 439, in __call__
>     ret = self.run(*args, **options)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ipalib/frontend.py", line 
> 755, in run
>     return self.forward(*args, **options)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ipalib/frontend.py", line 
> 776, in forward
>     return self.Backend.rpcclient.forward(self.name, *args, **kw)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ipalib/rpc.py", line 880, in 
> forward
>     command = getattr(self.conn, name)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ipalib/backend.py", line 97, 
> in __get_conn
>     self.id, threading.currentThread().getName())
> AttributeError: no context.rpcclient in thread 'CP Server Thread-6'
>
> The error shows up whether the server is run from within the python 
> interpreter or by itself.
>
> I kinit and have a TGT from the IPA server. The client machine is 
> registered with the IPA server. When I run the commands "by hand", an 
> HTTP ticket can be seen in the klist. When I run the webserver, no 
> HTTP ticket is ever recieved, so the code is failing on the client 
> side before it even gets to the server.
>
> Which is obviously not what should be happening. It's the same error I 
> got when I was using Flask, and now I'm using cherrypy and it's still 
> broken. Could this have something to do with the web server being a 
> multithreaded environment?
>