Just installed Splunk App for Lookup File Editing 4.0.1 in Splunk Enterprise 9.0.5. The app loads after restart. But it gives “The lookup could not be loaded from the server” when I try to open an existing lookup; it gives the same error after I click “Save” when I create a new lookup. The file is created; but a corresponding lookup definition is not. How do I make the app work?
Following a suggestion in https://community.splunk.com/t5/All-Apps-and-Add-ons/Upgraded-Lookup-Editor-3-0-5-Errors-String-valu..., I performed a search
index=_internal (sourcetype="lookup_editor_controller" OR sourcetype=lookup_editor_rest_handler OR sourcetype=lookup_backups_rest_handler) testedit
The only error entry reads
ERROR force lookup replication failed: user=admin, namespace=search, lookup_file=testedit, details=a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/opt/splunk/etc/apps/lookup_editor/bin/lookup_editor/__init__.py", line 419, in update
self.force_lookup_replication(namespace, lookup_file, session_key)
File "/opt/splunk/etc/apps/lookup_editor/bin/lookup_editor/__init__.py", line 295, in force_lookup_replication
if 'No local ConfRepo registered' in content:
TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'
Before this error, there were two DEBUG entries and one INFO. In chronological order:
DEBUG destination_lookup_full_path=/opt/splunk/etc/apps/search/lookups/testedit
DEBUG Creating a new lookup file, user=nobody, namespace=search, lookup_file=testedit, path="/opt/splunk/var/run/splunk/lookup_tmp/lookup_gen_20230818_181212_7r7p4o8s.txt"
INFO Lookup created successfully, user=admin, namespace=search, lookup_file=testedit, path="/opt/splunk/etc/apps/search/lookups/testedit"
After I manually define a lookup with this file, I am able to use it. But the editor still cannot open it.
