[HTCondor-users] condor chirp attribute update with non-string data structures

[Thomas Hartmann <thomas.hartmann@xxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

does condor_chirp/the chirp python bindings support attribute types 
other than strings? Something like attributes as list or dictionary 
class ads 
https://htcondor.readthedocs.io/en/latest/man-pages/classads.html ð

With a native python list, the bindings throw an error [1] and a naive 
serialization like [2] ends in an undefined job attribute.
It seems to work to do a manual serialization [3] (at least the string 
does not throw an error and gets up to the schedd). However I have not 
yet tried, if the string/list(?) ends up as list in ES when sending it 
via condor_adstash - so I am not sure, if the type(?) is actually a 
string or a list?

Packages are as of [4]

Cheers,
  Thomas


[1]
>>> import htcondor.htchirp
>>> with htcondor.htchirp.HTChirp() as chirp:
...     chirp.connect()
...     chirp.set_job_attr("MyTestList",['foo1','baz2','bar3'])
...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 3, in <module>
  File 
"/usr/local/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/htcondor/htchirp/htchirp.py", 
line 705, in set_job_attr
    quote(job_attribute), quote(attribute_value)
  File 
"/usr/local/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/htcondor/htchirp/htchirp.py", 
line 43, in quote
    return escape.sub(replace, chirp_string)
TypeError: expected string or bytes-like object

[2]
...     ...
...     chirp.set_job_attr("MytestList",str(['foo1','baz2','bar3']))
...     chirp.disconnect()


[3]
...     ...
...     chirp.set_job_attr("MyTestList","{'foo1','baz2','bar3'}")
...     chirp.disconnect()


[4]
condor-9.0.4-1.el7.x86_64
condor-boinc-7.16.16-1.el7.x86_64
condor-classads-9.0.4-1.el7.x86_64
condor-externals-9.0.4-1.el7.x86_64
condor-procd-9.0.4-1.el7.x86_64
python2-condor-9.0.4-1.el7.x86_64
python3-condor-9.0.4-1.el7.x86_64

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