HC Test: exception handling for restconf GET operation

When response to GET is 404, json loads() may fail with ValueError.

Change-Id: If627574bb7909a105d13381a2b89445f527ccb7b
Signed-off-by: selias <samelias@cisco.com>

diff --git a/resources/libraries/python/honeycomb/HoneycombUtil.py b/resources/libraries/python/honeycomb/HoneycombUtil.py
index b7338d3..76bb5b3 100644 (file)
--- a/resources/libraries/python/honeycomb/HoneycombUtil.py
+++ b/resources/libraries/python/honeycomb/HoneycombUtil.py
@@ -302,7 +302,14 @@ class HoneycombUtil(object):
         base_path = HoneycombUtil.read_path_from_url_file(url_file)
         path = base_path + path
         status_code, resp = HTTPRequest.get(node, path)
         base_path = HoneycombUtil.read_path_from_url_file(url_file)
         path = base_path + path
         status_code, resp = HTTPRequest.get(node, path)

-        return status_code, loads(resp)
+
+        try:
+            data = loads(resp)
+        except ValueError:
+            logger.debug("Failed to deserialize JSON data.")
+            data = None
+
+        return status_code, data

 
     @staticmethod
     def put_honeycomb_data(node, url_file, data, path="",
 
     @staticmethod
     def put_honeycomb_data(node, url_file, data, path="",