iosxr 'show inventory' parser can not parse empty description field

Aloha, The “show inventory” parser fails, if the description field is empty: CLI Output:

NAME: "module 0/0/0", DESCR: "ASR 9000 20-port 1GE Modular Port Adapter"
PID: A9K-MPA-20X1GE, VID: V03, SN: FOC19286666

NAME: "module mau 0/0/0/0", DESCR: ""
PID: N/A, VID: N/A, SN: FNS66661UTW

Parser output:

 "module 0/0/0": {
      "descr": "ASR 9000 20-port 1GE Modular Port Adapter",
      "pid": "N/A",
      "vid": "N/A",
      "sn": "FNS66661UTW"
    },

This fix helped: in: show_platform.py line 746: ' +DESCR: +\"(?P<descr>[\w\-\.\:\/\s,&]+)\"$')" change the + with * ' +DESCR: +\"(?P<descr>[\w\-\.\:\/\s,&]*)\"$')

Then it works:

"module 0/0/0": {
      "descr": "ASR 9000 20-port 1GE Modular Port Adapter",
      "pid": "A9K-MPA-20X1GE",
      "vid": "V03",
      "sn": "FOC196666"
    },
    "module mau 0/0/0/0": {
      "descr": "",
      "pid": "N/A",
      "vid": "N/A",
      "sn": "FNS66661UTW"
    },

Im just learning programming and this is my first issue report in Github. So forgive me, if I missed anything Cheers Marcel

[ghost]

Hi Jeaubin, Yes, good Idea. I will do a pull request for this fix. Can I learn something more.
😃

[jeaubin]

As we are getting ready for the release; we’ve done this fix and it will be part of the next official release (next week)

Thanks to both of you for finding it and proposing fix!