Error: Invalid value for '--version': '5.9.6' is not a valid boolean.

[mchristensen76]

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I'm building a Dockerfile using registry.access.redhat.com/ubi8/ubi and python 3.9 (i've also tried 3.8). I've installed softlayer multiple ways, all with the same results:

1. python -m pip install softlayer
2. python setup.py install

If I run the slcli with no options it returns the help menu, no errors. If I run the slcli -v or some of the other options, it fails with Error: Invalid value for '--version': '5.9.6' is not a valid boolean. at the bottom of the command.

I've tried installing older versions of softlayer but the same error, with the same version 5.9.6 would still show. I'm guessing because that version is considered the latest in the --version command.

Expected behavior
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The error should not appear.

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slcli -v
Usage: slcli [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...
Try 'slcli -h' for help.

Error: Invalid value for '--version': '5.9.6' is not a valid boolean.

Version
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slcli --version
Current: slcli (SoftLayer Command-line) v5.9.6
Latest:  slcli (SoftLayer Command-line) v5.9.6

[allmightyspiff]

Thanks for reporting this, certainly seems like an odd issue.

So far I'm not able to reproduce this issue in windows 10, or Ubuntu.

I'm not really familiar with RedHat's UBI stuff, does the SLCLI have the same problem in a normal RHEL setup or do you only see this problem in the UBI image for Red Hat?

If its only an issue with UBI red hat, could you provide a simple docker file that generates the issue? If I can reproduce the issue myself I can likely fix it.

Thanks.

[mchristensen76]

Hi @allmightyspiff here's an example Dockerfile:

FROM registry.access.redhat.com/ubi8/ubi as build

WORKDIR /

ENV SLCLI_VERSION=5.9.6

RUN true \
  && yum -y update \
  && yum install -y \
    git \
    nodejs \
    make gcc wget \
    # python38 python38-devel \
    python39 python39-devel \
    device-mapper-devel \
    libassuan-devel \
    gpgme-devel \
  && ln -s /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/python \
  && ln -s /usr/bin/pip3 /usr/bin/pip \
  && yum -y clean all \
  && rm -rf /var/cache/yum \
  && pip install --upgrade pip \
  && python -m pip install softlayer==${SLCLI_VERSION} \
  && true

ENTRYPOINT ["/bin/bash"]

Commands to run:

docker build . -t slcli_issue
docker run --rm -it slcli_issue
slcli vlan

I did notice if I change the ENV variable SLCLI_VERSION to something else it starts working. So I guess SLCLI_VERSION is a variable used by slcli?

Thanks,

Mike

[allmightyspiff]

Thanks for that, looks like SLCLI_VERSION being set is causing this problem.

For now, calling the env variable something else would likely fix this problem, but I'll update the codebase as well to not error like this.