Bug in arcgis.gis.server.Server

There appears to be a dodgy code that is error prone depending on how the Server class and publish_sd method is used.

If you initiate the Server class and proceed to publish_sd right away: server = Server( url=args.server_url, username=args.ags_admin, password=args.ags_pass ) server.publish_sd(sd_file=args.sdfile) Then in the publish_sd method there is an attempt to extract catalog = self._catalog if 'System' not in catalog.folders: But self._catalog is None in this scenario, hence attempt to read catalog.folder crashes the API. As such i think there should be a call to self.content which assures all is initiated as it should and prevents returning None

“site-packages\arcgis\gis\server\admin\administration.py”

[achapkowski]

I’ve gone through your workflow and tested it, and at the latest release I cannot reproduce this error.

Instead of accessing the Server directly, have you tried accessing it through the portal’s admin?

example

gis = GIS(mysite creds)
server = gis.admin.servers.list()[0]

[alexkemp94]

Same problem for me however achapkowski’s suggestion of acessing the server via GIS.admin.servers.list resolved the issue