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#9990 local variable 'e' referenced before assignment in ipaserver/plugins/dogtag.py
Closed: wontfix by rcritten. Opened by rcritten.

Closed: wontfix
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Issue

I noticed this doing interop testing between 4-11 and 4-13 servers.

There are two places in ipaserver/plugins/dogtag.py where ValueError is caught but no variable is kept but within the except the logger refers to e resulting in

UnboundLocalError: local variable 'e' referenced before assignment

These are in check_request_status and get_certificate.

The same bug is in all branches ipa-4-10 to ipa-4-12

in ipaserver/plugins/dogtag.py::ra:get_certificate()

       try:
            resp = json.loads(ipautil.decode_json(http_body))
        except ValueError:
            logger.debug("Response from CA was not valid JSON: %s", e)
            raise errors.RemoteRetrieveError(
                reason=_("Response from CA was not valid JSON")

In ipaserver/plugins/dogtag.py::ra:check_request_status:

       try:
            parse_result = json.loads(ipautil.decode_json(http_body))
        except ValueError:
            logger.debug("Response from CA was not valid JSON: %s", e)
            raise errors.RemoteRetrieveError(
                reason=_("Response from CA was not valid JSON")

e is referenced but never set.

Metadata Update from @rcritten:
- Issue assigned to rcritten

Metadata Update from @rcritten:
- Issue close_status updated to: wontfix
- Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)

The branches this appears in are all unsupported so it's unlikely to appear in the wild. I had to do manual machinations to provoke it in the first place by tweaking the rewrite rules.
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