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REFUSAL to compile if api.platformio.org is down!

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Configuration

Operating system:

PlatformIO Version (platformio --version):

4.1.0

Description of problem

If api.platformio.org is down then platformio refuses to compile. See this issue: https://github.com/esphome/issues/issues/948 NOTE: This is after the first compile ran successfully; after having downloaded all needed libraries (older versions than the current ones online).

Steps to Reproduce

Actual Results

Prints an exception and bails out. Example log:

esphome plug_1.yaml compile
INFO Reading configuration plug_1.yaml...
INFO Generating C++ source...
INFO Compiling app...
INFO Running:  platformio run -d plug_1
Processing plug_1 (board: esp8285; framework: arduino; platform: espressif8266@2.2.3)
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
HARDWARE: ESP8266 80MHz, 80KB RAM, 1MB Flash
Looking for ESPAsyncTCP-esphome library in registry
APIRequestError: [API] Invalid response: b'<html>\r\n<head><title>404 Not Found</title></head>\r\n<body bgcolor="white">\r\n<center><h1>404 Not Found</h1></center>\r\n<hr><center>nginx/1.14.0 (Ubuntu)</center>\r\n</body>\r\n</html>\r\n':
  File "/home/hassdev/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/platformio/builder/main.py", line 151:
    env.SConscript("$BUILD_SCRIPT")
  File "/home/hassdev/.platformio/packages/tool-scons/script/../engine/SCons/Script/SConscript.py", line 605:
    return _SConscript(self.fs, *files, **subst_kw)
  File "/home/hassdev/.platformio/packages/tool-scons/script/../engine/SCons/Script/SConscript.py", line 286:
    exec(compile(scriptdata, scriptname, 'exec'), call_stack[-1].globals)
  File "/home/hassdev/.platformio/platforms/espressif8266/builder/main.py", line 203:
    target_elf = env.BuildProgram()
  File "/home/hassdev/.platformio/packages/tool-scons/script/../engine/SCons/Environment.py", line 224:
    return self.method(*nargs, **kwargs)
  File "/home/hassdev/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/platformio/builder/tools/platformio.py", line 140:
    _build_project_deps(env)
  File "/home/hassdev/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/platformio/builder/tools/platformio.py", line 48:
    project_lib_builder = env.ConfigureProjectLibBuilder()
  File "/home/hassdev/.platformio/packages/tool-scons/script/../engine/SCons/Environment.py", line 224:
    return self.method(*nargs, **kwargs)
  File "/home/hassdev/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/platformio/builder/tools/piolib.py", line 1027:
    project.install_dependencies()
  File "/home/hassdev/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/platformio/builder/tools/piolib.py", line 859:
    lm.install(uri)
  File "/home/hassdev/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/platformio/managers/lib.py", line 289:
    name = "id=%d" % self.search_lib_id(
  File "/home/hassdev/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/platformio/managers/lib.py", line 184:
    result = util.get_api_result(
  File "/home/hassdev/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/platformio/util.py", line 349:
    result = _get_api_result(url, params, data)
  File "/home/hassdev/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/platformio/util.py", line 81:
    return func(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/home/hassdev/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/platformio/util.py", line 323:
    raise exception.APIRequestError("Invalid response: %s" % r.text.encode("utf-8"))
==================================================================================== [FAILED] Took 0.87 seconds ====================================================================================

Expected Results

Print the exception and continue compiling with locally available libraries.

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 4 years ago
Comments:10 (4 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

3reactions

erlangercommented, Dec 27, 2019

@ivankravets thanks for your reply, and for the fact that the website is up!

However, I don’t think it is really resolved, because the client still depends on the website being up in order to compile. What I would humbly suggest is to do the following in the code:

Try to contact api.platformio.org, if the reply does not include the expected json* then:
Print a warning and use the locally available dependencies to compile: “WARNING: Using locally available dependencies because of lack of response from api.platformio.org”
If there are no locally available dependencies because it is the first time a compilation is done, then print an error and exit saying: “ERROR: first time compilation requires api.platformio.org to be accessible”

This will make the client resilient and stable.

Hopefully you will consider this, and thank you so much for your great work!

(*) This includes any kind of error, not just 4XX or 5XX or lack of network connectivity but even getting some unexpected json reply without the proper data

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erlangercommented, Dec 30, 2019

I see that you are being honest, and that you honestly think that the client is not forcing unneeded online access. I apologize for suggesting there may be other reasons.

api.platformio.org is down again and I can not compile.