Bizarre Issue with External Scripts

Fri Jul 28 15:20:01 EDT 2017

I wish I could help you there. I have not encountered this issue. Just 2
days ago I edited an ext script in prod (well, copied from dev) and didn't
have any issues with caching. Not real sure whats going on with your setup.

-dan

On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 11:17 AM, Ralf Sawazki <rsawazki at gobcn.ca> wrote:

> Here's a better explanation of the issue:
>
> I create a provision, in this provision it calls an external script,
> passing 2 args, serial and mac.
>
> My external script, simply takes the two args it got, and returns them in
> the callback within this structure: result = {username: arg[0], password:
> arg[1]}. So it would return the "result" object
>
> Now the provision takes that result object, and sets the pppoe username to
> result.username, and password to result.password.
>
> All of the above works fine.
>
> The issue begins when I try to edit my external script. If I make a
> change, let's say, rather then return result as it is above, I return some
> string literals: result = {username: "user", password: "pass"}.
>
> Now when the provision runs, it will NOT set the pppoe username and
> password to "user" and "pass", it will set them to the arguments passed in
> from the provision: arg[0], and arg[1], so the serial and mac address.
>
> In this situation, it would seem that my external script is being cached
> the first time the provision is run.
>
> I can resolve this issue by renaming my external script with each change,
> and changing the ext() function to target the new filename.
>
> So, to me, it looks like either GenieACS, or Node.js is caching my
> external script based off of the timestamp of the GenieACS provision, and
> not checking the timestamp of the external script.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 1:56 PM, Ralf Sawazki <rsawazki at gobcn.ca> wrote:
>
>> Because when I make changes to my script, those changes aren't reflected
>> in what is actually happening. I was changing the name for testing
>> purposes. Because even when I changed the name, so theoretically genieacs
>> shouldn't be able to find it, genieacs wouldn't show any faults saying the
>> file is not found, it would keep running the script as if I had never
>> changed the name
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 1:40 PM, Dan Morphis <dan at milkcarton.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm not sure I understand your issue. If you are making changes to your
>>> ext script, why are you copying the file to _bak? Why not just edit the one
>>> file?
>>>
>>> -dan
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 9:56 AM, Ralf Sawazki <rsawazki at gobcn.ca> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Alright, that fixed it. But I believe i'm still having a caching issue.
>>>>
>>>> When I'm using the external script, no matter what changes I make to
>>>> it, it will always run an older version of it that doesn't exist.
>>>>
>>>> If my genieacs provision says:
>>>> let test = ext("getPPPoE","b", serial, mac);
>>>>
>>>> and I change the name of the file getPPPoE to getPPPoE_BAK for example,
>>>> the provision will keep running and not show any faults.
>>>>
>>>> Now, If i change my genieacs provision to say:
>>>> let test = ext("getPPPoE_BAK","b", serial, mac);
>>>>
>>>> It will start running my new script with no issue.
>>>>
>>>> So is the solution to rename my file everytime I make a change, and
>>>> reflect that rename in the file name in the provision?
>>>>
>>>> If, in the first situation where the provision is running a script that
>>>> doesn't exist, I manually change the username in the router, the provision
>>>> will no longer update the username.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for the help
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 6:15 PM, Dan Morphis <dan at milkcarton.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> restart the cwmp.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 11:40 AM, Ralf Sawazki <rsawazki at gobcn.ca>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Update:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I tried to rename my external script so that the provision couldn't
>>>>>> find it, and it is still swapping between those two values.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 2:18 PM, Ralf Sawazki <rsawazki at gobcn.ca>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hello all,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Images <http://imgur.com/a/BtB3U>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The images above show what I see.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The situation is that due to caching, seemingly, genieacs is
>>>>>>> alternating between my current external script, and an older version that
>>>>>>> no longer exists. I have the tr069 periodic inform interval at 5 seconds
>>>>>>> for testing atm, and every 5 seconds, it swaps between the expected
>>>>>>> information of the serial and mac, and the old output of literally arg[0]
>>>>>>> and arg[1].
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'm completely stumped as to what's going on.
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> Ralf Sawazki
>>>>>>> 1 (204) 594-2567 <%28204%29%20594-2566>
>>>>>>> Broadband Communications North Inc.
>>>>>>> 26-30 Fort Street
>>>>>>> Winnipeg. MB
>>>>>>> R3C 1C4
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Ralf Sawazki
>>>>>> 1 (204) 594-2567 <%28204%29%20594-2566>
>>>>>> Broadband Communications North Inc.
>>>>>> 26-30 Fort Street
>>>>>> Winnipeg. MB
>>>>>> R3C 1C4
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>> Broadband Communications North Inc.
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>> Winnipeg. MB
>> R3C 1C4
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> Broadband Communications North Inc.
> 26-30 Fort Street
> Winnipeg. MB
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