Bug #67748 for Net-Amazon-EC2: get_console_output fails when there is no output

Mon Apr 25 16:52:51 2011 andrew [...] pimlott.net - Ticket created

Subject:	get_console_output fails when there is no output
Date:	Mon, 25 Apr 2011 13:25:51 -0700
To:	bug-Net-Amazon-EC2 [...] rt.cpan.org
From:	Andrew Pimlott <andrew [...] pimlott.net>

When EC2 returns no output for get_console_output (which is often, since the console output seems to be refreshed very infrequently), Net::Amazon::EC2 throws a "Premature end of base64 data" warning and returns garbage. If I dump $xml at line 2508, I see: 0 HASH(0xb36a648) 'Errors' => undef 'instanceId' => 'i-7a207815' 'output' => HASH(0xb36d8f8) empty hash 'requestId' => '4b2745e9-fdd1-4bee-87d8-878b4d2af374' 'timestamp' => '2011-04-25T20:13:40.000Z' 'xmlns' => 'http://ec2.amazonaws.com/doc/2009-11-30/' So obviously $xml->{output} is not text. Probably, the empty hashref comes from a heuristic in the XML de-serializer, but it is wrong. Andrew

Wed Jan 18 22:46:52 2012 mrallen1 [...] yahoo.com - Correspondence added

On Mon Apr 25 16:52:51 2011, andrew@pimlott.net wrote: Show quoted text

> When EC2 returns no output for get_console_output (which is often, since > the console output seems to be refreshed very infrequently), > Net::Amazon::EC2 throws a "Premature end of base64 data" warning and > returns garbage. If I dump $xml at line 2508, I see: > > 0 HASH(0xb36a648) > 'Errors' => undef > 'instanceId' => 'i-7a207815' > 'output' => HASH(0xb36d8f8) > empty hash > 'requestId' => '4b2745e9-fdd1-4bee-87d8-878b4d2af374' > 'timestamp' => '2011-04-25T20:13:40.000Z' > 'xmlns' => 'http://ec2.amazonaws.com/doc/2009-11-30/' > > So obviously $xml->{output} is not text. Probably, the empty hashref > comes from a heuristic in the XML de-serializer, but it is wrong. > > Andrew

Thanks for the report. I'll check into this.

Wed Jan 18 22:46:53 2012 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

Wed Jul 02 22:51:54 2014 mrallen1 [...] yahoo.com - Correspondence added

On Mon Apr 25 16:52:51 2011, andrew@pimlott.net wrote: Show quoted text

> When EC2 returns no output for get_console_output (which is often, since > the console output seems to be refreshed very infrequently), > Net::Amazon::EC2 throws a "Premature end of base64 data" warning and > returns garbage.

I changed this to check if $xml->{output} is defined and has a length, and if so, decode the base64 otherwise return undef. This is going into 0.25

Wed Jul 02 22:51:55 2014 mrallen1 [...] yahoo.com - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'