some resources show "not-supported" when they shouldn't

[Daniel Manrique]

I installed the latest set of packages from the PPA to test c-d-t-s. This problem seems related to the new resource provider which has a new layout and possibly some other changes. Versions are:

Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-============================================-===========================-===========================-=============================================================================================
ii checkbox-gui 0.17.6-0ubuntu5 amd64 QML based interface for system testing based on Plainbox.
ii checkbox-ng 0.3~dev+bzr2869+pkg1~ubuntu all PlainBox based test runner
ii checkbox-ng-service 0.3~dev+bzr2869+pkg1~ubuntu all CheckBox D-Bus service
ii plainbox 0.6~dev+bzr2869+pkg2~ubuntu all toolkit for software and hardware integration testing
ii plainbox-provider-canonical-driver-test-suit 1.7+bzr2368+bzr68~ubuntu14. all Tool for testing driver compatibility with Ubuntu.
ii plainbox-provider-checkbox 0.4~dev+bzr2869+pkg1~ubuntu amd64 CheckBox provider for PlainBox
ii plainbox-provider-resource-generic 0.3~dev+bzr2869+pkg3~ubuntu amd64 CheckBox generic resource jobs provider
ii plainbox-secure-policy 0.6~dev+bzr2869+pkg2~ubuntu all policykit policy required to use plainbox (secure version)
ii python3-checkbox-ng 0.3~dev+bzr2869+pkg1~ubuntu all PlainBox based test runner (Python 3 library)
ii python3-checkbox-support 0.2~dev+bzr2869+pkg1~ubuntu all collection of Python modules used by PlainBox providers
ii python3-plainbox 0.6~dev+bzr2869+pkg2~ubuntu all toolkit for software and hardware testing (python3 module)

Running c-d-t-s and trying to generate a report failed with some error about not finding a "name" key in packages. Also a couple of the required resources failed bogusly as their requirements do exist on the system.

Running this:

$ plainbox run -i .*miscellanea/submission-resources.*

Ultimately results in this, notice the not-supported resources:

==================================[ Results ]===================================
2013.com.canonical.certification::cpuinfo: pass
2013.com.canonical.certification::dmi_attachment: fail
2013.com.canonical.certification::dpkg: not-supported
2013.com.canonical.certification::lsb: not-supported
2013.com.canonical.certification::miscellanea/submission-resources: not-supported
2013.com.canonical.certification::package: pass
2013.com.canonical.certification::requirements: fail
2013.com.canonical.certification::sysfs_attachment: pass
2013.com.canonical.certification::udev_attachment: pass
2013.com.canonical.certification::uname: pass

The job definitions (now living in /usr/share/2013.com.canonical.certification\:plainbox-resources) show this:

id: dpkg
estimated_duration: 0.19
plugin: resource
command: dpkg_resource
requires: package.name == "dpkg"
_description: Gets info on the version of dpkg installed

id: lsb
estimated_duration: 1.63
plugin: resource
command: lsb_resource
requires: package.name == "lsb-release"
_description: Generates release info based on /etc/lsb-release

both lsb-release and dpkg *are* installed on the target system.

Trying to save this to xml ($ plainbox run -i .*miscellanea/submission-resources.* -f xml) exposes the xml exporter crash (let me know if you want this on a separate bug):
CRITICAL plainbox.crashes: Executable 'plainbox' invoked with Namespace(command=<plainbox.impl.commands.run.RunCommand object at 0x7f834e850128>, debug_console=False, debug_interrupt=False, dry_run=False, exclude_pattern_list=[], include_pattern_list=['.*miscellanea/submission-resources.*'], log_level=None, not_interactive=False, output_file=<_io.TextIOWrapper name='<stdout>' mode='w' encoding='UTF-8'>, output_format='xml', output_options='', pdb=False, providers=None, trace=[], transport=None, transport_options=None, transport_where=None, whitelist=[]) has crashed
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/plainbox/impl/clitools.py", line 513, in dispatch_and_catch_exceptions
    return self.dispatch_command(ns)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/plainbox/impl/clitools.py", line 509, in dispatch_command
    return ns.command.invoked(ns)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/plainbox/impl/commands/run.py", line 384, in invoked
    return RunInvocation(self.provider_list, self.config, ns).run()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/plainbox/impl/commands/run.py", line 87, in run
    return self._run_jobs(ns, job_list, exporter, transport)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/plainbox/impl/commands/run.py", line 207, in _run_jobs
    exporter.dump(data_subset, exported_stream)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/plainbox/impl/exporter/xml.py", line 188, in dump
    root = self.get_root_element(data)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/plainbox/impl/exporter/xml.py", line 213, in get_root_element
    self._add_software(root, data)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/plainbox/impl/exporter/xml.py", line 377, in _add_software
    ("name", package_dict["name"]))))
KeyError: 'name'

I need to set this as critical since inability to generate the reports blocks pretty much every legitimate use of these tools.

[Brendan Donegan (brendan-donegan)]

The culprit: dpkg-query -W -f='id: ${Package}\nversion: ${Version}\n\n'

name changed to id

[Zygmunt Krynicki (zyga)]

I think this will be plainbox-provider-resource 0.3, this is not a plainbox
bug

On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 3:29 PM, Daniel Manrique <
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> ** Changed in: checkbox-ihv-ng
> Status: Confirmed => Fix Committed
>
> ** Changed in: checkbox
> Milestone: None => plainbox-0.6
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