Can't parse dictionnary to create_or_update_secret method

Briefly describe the issue:

vault_co.secrets.kv.v2.create_or_update_secret('prod/' + next(iter(server)), secret=secret) is giving me a json.decoder.JSONDecodeError however vault_co.write('secret/prod/' + next(iter(server)), data=secret) is working fine.

What did you expect to happen?

create_or_update_secret seems to not validate the dictionnary in the secret variable, although write does.

What did happen?

create_or_update_secret failed.

Please include helpful code examples so we can attempt to replicate (if applicable):

Here is the variables:

next(iter(server)) = Arthur
secret = {'IP': '192.168.1.4', 'User': 'root', 'Password': 'Pa$$w0rd'}

Here is the Stacktrace:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 5, in <module>
  File "/opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/hvac/api/secrets_engines/kv_v2.py", line 124, in create_or_update_secret
    return response.json()
  File "/opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/requests/models.py", line 897, in json
    return complexjson.loads(self.text, **kwargs)
  File "/opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/lib64/python3.6/json/__init__.py", line 354, in loads
    return _default_decoder.decode(s)
  File "/opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/lib64/python3.6/json/decoder.py", line 339, in decode
    obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
  File "/opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/lib64/python3.6/json/decoder.py", line 357, in raw_decode
    raise JSONDecodeError("Expecting value", s, err.value) from None
json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)

This may be not the correct way to create secrets, as the write function didn’t parse data correctly:

$ vault kv get secret/prod/Arthur
==== Data ====
Key     Value
---     -----
data    map[IP:192.168.1.4 Password:Pa$$w0rd User:root]

I expected something like:

==== Data ====
Key     Value
---     -----
IP    192.168.1.4
Password  Pa$$w0rd
User   root

This is maybe related to the create_or_update_secret issue, however I can’t find the correct way to do it in the documentation.

[drewmullen]

check the version of your secret engine vault secrets list --detailed, i suspect that your problem is that the secret engine youre using is v1

[drewmullen]

I think it all just depends on the version. I have a 1.2.2 container and that does get kvv2 at init

Anyways, glad you got working!