Splunk add-on builder validation - blank screen

[tomasmoser]

Hi Team,

I created an add-on in Splunk Add-on Builder. I wanted to validate it. When I click "Validate" there is no output at all. I cannot find a problem. Does anybody has a clue what's the problem?

I run latest Debian stable 9.3 linux on 64bit platform. I found below errors in web_service.log:

2018-01-29 23:56:59,026 ERROR   [5a6fa6b1db7f36e805dc90] <string>:79 - Cannot start validation. error: Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 63, in submit_validation_job
  File "/opt/splunk/etc/apps/splunk_app_addon-builder/bin/ta_generator/builder_ta_validation.py", line 65, in start_validation_job
    key_values)
  File "/opt/splunk/etc/apps/splunk_app_addon-builder/bin/aob/aob_common/metric_collector/metric_util.py", line 80, in func_wrappers
    ret = func(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/opt/splunk/etc/apps/splunk_app_addon-builder/bin/tabuilder_utility/tab_conf_manager.py", line 133, in create_data_input
    self.service.inputs.create(name, input_type, **key_values)
  File "/opt/splunk/etc/apps/splunk_app_addon-builder/bin/splunk_app_add_on_builder/solnlib/packages/splunklib/client.py", line 2286, in create
    kindpath = self.kindpath(kind)
  File "/opt/splunk/etc/apps/splunk_app_addon-builder/bin/splunk_app_add_on_builder/solnlib/packages/splunklib/client.py", line 2433, in kindpath
    if kind in self.kinds:
  File "/opt/splunk/etc/apps/splunk_app_addon-builder/bin/splunk_app_add_on_builder/solnlib/packages/splunklib/client.py", line 2401, in kinds
    return self._get_kind_list() 
  File "/opt/splunk/etc/apps/splunk_app_addon-builder/bin/splunk_app_add_on_builder/solnlib/packages/splunklib/client.py", line 2390, in _get_kind_list
    subkinds = self._get_kind_list(subpath + [entry.title])
  File "/opt/splunk/etc/apps/splunk_app_addon-builder/bin/splunk_app_add_on_builder/solnlib/packages/splunklib/client.py", line 2390, in _get_kind_list
    subkinds = self._get_kind_list(subpath + [entry.title])
  File "/opt/splunk/etc/apps/splunk_app_addon-builder/bin/splunk_app_add_on_builder/solnlib/packages/splunklib/client.py", line 2378, in _get_kind_list
    response = self.get('/'.join(subpath))
  File "/opt/splunk/etc/apps/splunk_app_addon-builder/bin/splunk_app_add_on_builder/solnlib/packages/splunklib/client.py", line 1648, in get
    return super(Collection, self).get(name, owner, app, sharing, **query)
  File "/opt/splunk/etc/apps/splunk_app_addon-builder/bin/splunk_app_add_on_builder/solnlib/packages/splunklib/client.py", line 746, in get
    **query)
  File "/opt/splunk/etc/apps/splunk_app_addon-builder/bin/splunk_app_add_on_builder/solnlib/packages/splunklib/binding.py", line 287, in wrapper
    return request_fun(self, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/opt/splunk/etc/apps/splunk_app_addon-builder/bin/splunk_app_add_on_builder/solnlib/packages/splunklib/binding.py", line 69, in new_f
    val = f(*args, **kwargs) 
  File "/opt/splunk/etc/apps/splunk_app_addon-builder/bin/splunk_app_add_on_builder/solnlib/packages/splunklib/binding.py", line 665, in get       
    response = self.http.get(path, self._auth_headers, **query)                                                                      
  File "/opt/splunk/etc/apps/splunk_app_addon-builder/bin/splunk_app_add_on_builder/solnlib/packages/splunklib/binding.py", line 1160, in get      
    return self.request(url, { 'method': "GET", 'headers': headers })                                                                
  File "/opt/splunk/etc/apps/splunk_app_addon-builder/bin/splunk_app_add_on_builder/solnlib/packages/splunklib/binding.py", line 1221, in request  
    raise HTTPError(response)                                                                                                        
HTTPError: HTTP 404 Not Found -- Not Found    

Cheers
Tomas

[tomasmoser · Accepted solution]

Resolved.

For some reason Splunk user didn't have enough capabilities. After I added all the missing ones problem vanished.

My suspicion is that following error code snippet actually relates to REST API call - I was missing "rest...." capabilites:

> File
> "/opt/splunk/etc/apps/splunk_app_addon-builder/bin/splunk_app_add_on_builder/solnlib/packages/splunklib/binding.py",
> line 1221, in request  
>      raise HTTPError(response)                                                                                                          HTTPError: HTTP 404 Not Found -- Not
> Found

Tomas

[merrelr]

@tomasmoser 
I'm having this same issue, but I don't quite understand your solution.

I'm running splunk locally and logging in as admin which has all REST permissions.