HEC not giving JSON output when using python

rohitmaheshwari — Wed, 30 Sep 2020 04:12:42 GMT

I am fairly new to python and I am trying to use a python script to get the health of my HEC in JSON format.

When I am using a curl command like below:
curl -k -s -u 'username:password' -X GET https:myServername:8088/services/collector/health
I get the below response:
{"text":"HEC is healthy","code":17}

But when I am using the same command in python to get json event such as above its giving me an error saying the "NO json objects could be decoded"
and when I hash out the json.loads() variable from the below script, the output says in an html format "The request your client sent was too large".

This might be sending me an html response no matter what. Can you please suggest how to get a JSON response from 8088 port for the /services/collector/health endpoint.

python script below:

!/usr/bin/python

import json
import os
import re
import sys
import urllib
import httplib2
import credentials
import requests

username = credentials.username
baseurl = credentials.baseurl
password = credentials.password
hecBaseUrl = 'https://myServer:8088'
myhttp = httplib2.Http(disable_ssl_certificate_validation=True)

try:

cmdurl = '/services/auth/login'
serverResponse = myhttp.request(baseurl + cmdurl, 'POST', headers={}, body=urllib.urlencode({'username':username, 'password':password,'output_mode':'json'}))[1]

print serverResponse

parsed_json = json.loads(serverResponse)
sessionKey = parsed_json['sessionKey']
print "sessionKey is %s" % sessionKey
hecUrl = '/services/collector/health'
totalUrl = (hecBaseUrl + hecUrl)
print totalUrl
hecServerResponse = myhttp.request(hecBaseUrl + hecUrl, 'GET', headers={}, body=urllib.urlencode({'output_mode':'json'}))[1]
parsed_json_hec = json.loads(hecServerResponse)
print parsed_json_hec
print hecServerResponse
except Exception, err:
sys.stderr.write('Error: %s\n' %str(err))

Re: HEC not giving JSON output when using python

arjunpkishore5 — Fri, 14 Feb 2020 20:39:10 GMT

Your code is unnecessarily complex

import requests
from requests.auth import HTTPBasicAuth
import json

username = 'username'
password = 'password'
hecBaseUrl = 'https://myServer:8088'

response = json.loads(requests.get('{}/services/collector/health'.format(hecBaseUrl), auth=HTTPBasicAuth(username, password), verify=False).text)

print(json.dumps(response, indent=4))

Re: HEC not giving JSON output when using python

rohitmaheshwari — Tue, 18 Feb 2020 15:24:12 GMT

Thankyou Arjun,

This works.
I had to add a zero in the curly braces.
response = json.loads(requests.get('{0}/services/collector/health'.format(hecBaseUrl), auth=HTTPBasicAuth(username, password), verify=False).text)

If possible can you please explain this request.

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!/usr/bin/python

print serverResponse

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