Tools validator TeSS error

[bianchini88]

Run python var/tools_validator.py --reg --username *** --password "**"
/home/runner/work/rdmkit/rdmkit/var/tools_validator.py:164: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '('
if 'id' not in tool.keys() or tool['id'] != re.sub('[^0-9a-zA-Z]+', ' ', re.sub("[([].?[)]]", "", tool['id'])).strip().replace(" ", "-").lower():
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/runner/work/rdmkit/rdmkit/var/tools_validator.py", line 191, in
check_tess = tess_available(tool_name)
File "/home/runner/work/rdmkit/rdmkit/var/tools_validator.py", line 68, in tess_available
if len(fetch_output(query)['data']) > 0:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^
TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not subscriptable
Error: Process completed with exit code 1.

@bedroesb, If I read this correctly, the issue is probably fetch_output(query) returning None.

[bedroesb]

Hmmm this is a curious one, since it happens on an old entry, that used to work before. Could it be a TeSS API Glitch/change?

[bedroesb]

We we could off course catch none to prevent the whole workflow to stop

[bianchini88]

Hi @bedroesb. I see you are rerunning the workflows. This error does not seem to happen systematically; it is the same error that we encountered here: https://github.com/elixir-europe/rdmkit/actions/runs/23053933418/job/66962052031.

Considering this script is meant to run not too often (once a week), and it contains several weakly bound components, I think we should do whatever we can to prevent it from stopping too early.

[bedroesb]

I could locally not recreate the error... that makes it annoying.

[bedroesb]

Since just "ignoring" response None, would be useless since it would replace the TeSS links with blanks, I suggest we reach out to TeSS to see if their firewall changed or we are hitting rate limits of the API

[bedroesb]

Finn got back to me and said our problems are related to TeSS moving to Cloudflare. He will reach-out to the hub to look into tweaking the settings.

[bianchini88]

This seems to be solved. See #1841