[Pkg-graphite-maint] Bug#800448: graphite-web: Error "object has no attribute 'raw_post_data'" when posting new events

Tue Sep 29 13:40:18 UTC 2015

Package: graphite-web
Version: 0.9.12+debian-6
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream

Dear Maintainer,

When trying to post events to the events API, I have the following error:

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$ curl -X POST http://graphite.lan/events/ -d '{"what": "Event", "tags": "test", "data": "test"}'
* Hostname was NOT found in DNS cache
*   Trying 192.168.101.229...
* Connected to graphite.lan (192.168.101.229) port 80 (#0)
> POST /events/ HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: curl/7.38.0
> Host: graphite.lan
> Accept: */*
> Content-Length: 119
> Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
> 
* upload completely sent off: 119 out of 119 bytes
< HTTP/1.1 500 INTERNAL SERVER ERROR
< Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2015 13:35:13 GMT
* Server Apache/2.4.10 (Debian) is not blacklisted
< Server: Apache/2.4.10 (Debian)
< Vary: Accept-Encoding
< Connection: close
< Transfer-Encoding: chunked
< Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
< 
<body style="background-color: #666666; color: black;">
<center>
<h2 style='font-family: "Arial"'>
<p>Graphite encountered an unexpected error while handling your request.</p>
<p>Please contact your site administrator if the problem persists.</p>
</h2>
<br/>
<div style="width: 50%; text-align: center; font-family: monospace; background-color: black; font-weight: bold; color: #ff4422;">

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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/core/handlers/base.py", line 111, in get_response
    response = wrapped_callback(request, *callback_args, **callback_kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/graphite/events/views.py", line 33, in view_events
    return post_event(request)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/graphite/events/views.py", line 45, in post_event
    event = json.loads(request.raw_post_data)
AttributeError: 'WSGIRequest' object has no attribute 'raw_post_data'

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Nothing gets logged as far as I know. This renders the events API unusable on Jessie.

Upstreams had an issue for this: https://github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web/issues/1216

Would it be possible to have a patch for this so we can use this API on stable?

Thanks,

 Jonathan

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.2
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_CH.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_CH.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages graphite-web depends on:
ii  adduser                3.113+nmu3
ii  libjs-jquery           1.7.2+dfsg-3.2
ii  libjs-jquery-flot      0.8.2+dfsg-1
ii  libjs-prototype        1.7.1-3
ii  libjs-scriptaculous    1.9.0-2
ii  python                 2.7.9-1
ii  python-cairo           1.8.8-1+b2
ii  python-django          1.7.7-1+deb8u2
ii  python-django-tagging  1:0.3.1-4
ii  python-pyparsing       2.0.3+dfsg1-1
ii  python-simplejson      3.6.5-1
ii  python-tz              2012c+dfsg-0.1
ii  python-whisper         0.9.12-1

graphite-web recommends no packages.

Versions of packages graphite-web suggests:
ii  graphite-carbon      0.9.12-3
ii  libapache2-mod-wsgi  4.3.0-1
pn  python-ldap          <none>
pn  python-memcache      <none>
ii  python-mysqldb       1.2.3-2.1

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/graphite/local_settings.py changed [not included]

-- no debconf information