[libvirt] python setMetadata issue

[Doug Goldstein]

On Dec 24, 2013, at 2:13 AM, Umar Draz <unix.co at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> I am trying to set Metada of running virtual machine, but its giving me an error.

Thanks for taking the time to report a potential issue. When you report potential issues please make sure to include the version of libvirt you are using. 
> 
> Here is my code
> 
> import libvirt
> 
> conn = libvirt.open('qemu+tcp://10.0.128.12/system')
> dom = conn.lookupByName('virtspace')
> type = 'VIR_DOMAIN_METADATA_DESCRIPTION'

The type value is not a string, it should be libvirt.VIR_DOMAIN_METADATA_DESCRIPTION
> key = ''
> uri = ''

The above values must be set to None for when setting the description per the documentation.
> 
> dom.setMetadata(conn, type, 'myDescription', key, uri)
> 
> 
> and here is the error.
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "setMeta.py", line 11, in <module>
>     dom.setMetadata(conn, type, 'meta_test', key, uri)
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 1460, in setMetadata
>     ret = libvirtmod.virDomainSetMetadata(self._o, type, metadata, key, uri, flags)
> AttributeError: virConnect instance has no attribute '__trunc__'

Definitely curious what version you used since we should not error like this despite the argument mix up.
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