Issues with error handling for HelloHandler when using tty_netconf transport

[monnierj]

Hi,

I've found something off in the open function from lib/jnpr/junos/transport/tty_netconf.py.

The data read upon opening connection is fed into HelloHandler.parse can be of two types:

• an XML element, if there are errors
• a bytes sequence, if the data was XML-compliant

If the case of an unrecoverable error, _parse_buffer returns an XML element, on which we call decode(). It obviously raises an exception:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/path/to/test/script/test_junos.py", line 15, in open
    jnpr_device.open()
  File "/Users/julien.monnier/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/project-42eiPW28-py3.10/lib/python3.10/site-packages/jnpr/junos/console.py", line 216, in open
    raise ex
  File "/Users/julien.monnier/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/project-42eiPW28-py3.10/lib/python3.10/site-packages/jnpr/junos/console.py", line 207, in open
    self._tty_login()
  File "/Users/julien.monnier/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/project-42eiPW28-py3.10/lib/python3.10/site-packages/jnpr/junos/console.py", line 316, in _tty_login
    self._tty.login()
  File "/Users/julien.monnier/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/project-42eiPW28-py3.10/lib/python3.10/site-packages/jnpr/junos/transport/tty.py", line 117, in login
    self.nc.open(at_shell=self.at_shell)
  File "/Users/julien.monnier/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/project-42eiPW28-py3.10/lib/python3.10/site-packages/jnpr/junos/transport/tty_netconf.py", line 72, in open
    self._session_id, _ = HelloHandler.parse(self.hello.decode("utf-8"))
AttributeError: 'lxml.etree._Element' object has no attribute 'decode'

The related PR fixes the issue by checking whether we have a bytes sequence or a XML element, and conditionally calling decode on it.

I can provide a reproduction script, even if it's not really useful (just a connection to an SRX300 through a terminal server).

[chidanandpujar]

Hi @monnierj
Please share the scripts to replicate this issue ,

Thanks

[monnierj]

Hi,

Here is a simple reproduction script, junos-eznc is in the latest tagged version, which matches what can be found in the documentation:

from jnpr.junos import Device

CS_HOSTNAME = "ts_hostname"
CS_USERNAME = "ts_user"
CS_PASSWORD = "xxx"

DEVICE_USERNAME = "noc"
DEVICE_PASSWORD = "xxx"

with Device(
    host=CS_HOSTNAME, cs_user=CS_USERNAME, cs_passwd=CS_PASSWORD,
    user=DEVICE_USERNAME, passwd=DEVICE_PASSWORD, timeout=6
) as dev:
    print("Connected!")
    print(dev.facts)

The issue has been reproduced both on macOS+Python 3.10 and Debian Linux 11+Python 3.9.

The target device is an SRX300 running JUNOS 21.4R3-S3.4, and the console server is an Avocent ACS8000.
Manually connecting to the console server works fine.

Thanks!

[chidanandpujar]

Hi @monnierj
Thanks for sharing the details .
I will try to replicate this issue on local setup .

Thanks