powermax/vnx manila drivers failed on py3.6 - ‘TypeError: POST data should be bytes, an iterable of bytes, or a file object. It cannot be of type str.’

[Sam Wan]

Nov 24 21:32:40 vmaxmanila manila-share[13510]: ERROR manila.share.manager [None req-eadeb5f6-9269-4382-b773-a9b382da8c4d None None] Error encountered during initialization of driver EMCShareDriver@vmaxmanila@london: TypeError: POST data should be bytes, an iterable of bytes, or a file object. It cannot be of type str.
Nov 24 21:32:40 vmaxmanila manila-share[13510]: ERROR manila.share.manager Traceback (most recent call last):
Nov 24 21:32:40 vmaxmanila manila-share[13510]: ERROR manila.share.manager File "/opt/stack/new/manila/manila/share/manager.py", line 311, in _driver_setup
Nov 24 21:32:40 vmaxmanila manila-share[13510]: ERROR manila.share.manager self.driver.do_setup(ctxt)
Nov 24 21:32:40 vmaxmanila manila-share[13510]: ERROR manila.share.manager File "/opt/stack/new/manila/manila/share/drivers/dell_emc/driver.py", line 164, in do_setup
Nov 24 21:32:40 vmaxmanila manila-share[13510]: ERROR manila.share.manager self.plugin.connect(self, context)
Nov 24 21:32:40 vmaxmanila manila-share[13510]: ERROR manila.share.manager File "/opt/stack/new/manila/manila/share/drivers/dell_emc/common/enas/utils.py", line 52, in inner
Nov 24 21:32:40 vmaxmanila manila-share[13510]: ERROR manila.share.manager ret = func(self, *args, **kwargs)
Nov 24 21:32:40 vmaxmanila manila-share[13510]: ERROR manila.share.manager File "/opt/stack/new/manila/manila/share/drivers/dell_emc/plugins/powermax/connection.py", line 591, in connect
Nov 24 21:32:40 vmaxmanila manila-share[13510]: ERROR manila.share.manager self.manager = manager.StorageObjectManager(config)
Nov 24 21:32:40 vmaxmanila manila-share[13510]: ERROR manila.share.manager File "/opt/stack/new/manila/manila/share/drivers/dell_emc/plugins/powermax/object_manager.py", line 44, in _init__
Nov 24 21:32:40 vmaxmanila manila-share[13510]: ERROR manila.share.manager self.connectors['XML'] = connector.XMLAPIConnector(configuration)
Nov 24 21:32:40 vmaxmanila manila-share[13510]: ERROR manila.share.manager File "/opt/stack/new/manila/manila/share/drivers/dell_emc/common/enas/connector.py", line 55, in __init__
Nov 24 21:32:40 vmaxmanila manila-share[13510]: ERROR manila.share.manager self._do_setup()
Nov 24 21:32:40 vmaxmanila manila-share[13510]: ERROR manila.share.manager File "/opt/stack/new/manila/manila/share/drivers/dell_emc/common/enas/connector.py", line 63, in _do_setup
Nov 24 21:32:40 vmaxmanila manila-share[13510]: ERROR manila.share.manager resp = self.url_opener.open(req)
Nov 24 21:32:40 vmaxmanila manila-share[13510]: ERROR manila.share.manager File "/usr/lib/python3.6/urllib/request.py", line 524, in open
Nov 24 21:32:40 vmaxmanila manila-share[13510]: ERROR manila.share.manager req = meth(req)
Nov 24 21:32:40 vmaxmanila manila-share[13510]: ERROR manila.share.manager File "/usr/lib/python3.6/urllib/request.py", line 1248, in do_request_
Nov 24 21:32:40 vmaxmanila manila-share[13510]: ERROR manila.share.manager raise TypeError(msg)
Nov 24 21:32:40 vmaxmanila manila-share[13510]: ERROR manila.share.manager TypeError: POST data should be bytes, an iterable of bytes, or a file object. It cannot be of type str.

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Fix proposed to branch: master
Review: https://review.opendev.org/696002

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Reviewed: https://review.opendev.org/696002
Committed: https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/manila/commit/?id=ddfb07987b15e53747d457dfc2e77fee5171fb40
Submitter: Zuul
Branch: master

commit ddfb07987b15e53747d457dfc2e77fee5171fb40
Author: Ryan Liang <email address hidden>
Date: Thu Jul 25 09:41:18 2019 +0800

    VNX/Powermax: Make it work under python3

    Add and remove the unnecessary `encode`.

    Change-Id: I2fbbd9d3950d4b68eca9905839a1f910e5a8ce4a
    Closes-bug: #1853805

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Fix proposed to branch: stable/train
Review: https://review.opendev.org/698829

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Reviewed: https://review.opendev.org/698829
Committed: https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/manila/commit/?id=ce302d04ecb4ef69ed14f2a8e982e8170f3e60a0
Submitter: Zuul
Branch: stable/train

commit ce302d04ecb4ef69ed14f2a8e982e8170f3e60a0
Author: Ryan Liang <email address hidden>
Date: Thu Jul 25 09:41:18 2019 +0800

    VNX/Powermax: Make it work under python3

    Add and remove the unnecessary `encode`.

    Change-Id: I2fbbd9d3950d4b68eca9905839a1f910e5a8ce4a
    Closes-bug: #1853805
    (cherry picked from commit ddfb07987b15e53747d457dfc2e77fee5171fb40)

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Fix proposed to branch: stable/stein
Review: https://review.opendev.org/701647

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Reviewed: https://review.opendev.org/701647
Committed: https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/manila/commit/?id=0dc9e9105eac1027b5151509c7cc13e090f378dc
Submitter: Zuul
Branch: stable/stein

commit 0dc9e9105eac1027b5151509c7cc13e090f378dc
Author: Ryan Liang <email address hidden>
Date: Thu Jul 25 09:41:18 2019 +0800

    VNX/Powermax: Make it work under python3

    Add and remove the unnecessary `encode`.

    Change-Id: I2fbbd9d3950d4b68eca9905839a1f910e5a8ce4a
    Closes-bug: #1853805
    (cherry picked from commit ddfb07987b15e53747d457dfc2e77fee5171fb40)
    (cherry picked from commit ce302d04ecb4ef69ed14f2a8e982e8170f3e60a0)

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

This issue was fixed in the openstack/manila 9.1.1 release.

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

This issue was fixed in the openstack/manila 8.1.1 release.