An invalid key plugin_paths was specified

[srchild]

Just updated and update hung for several minutes. Rebooted and seeing this in the log:

11:03:48---Traceback (most recent call last):
11:03:48--- File "/usr/local/bin/server.py", line 16, in
11:03:48--- from utils.notifications import sendAppriseNotifications
11:03:48--- File "BirdNET-Pi/scripts/utils/notifications.py", line 16, in
11:03:48--- asset = apprise.AppriseAsset(
11:03:48--- File "BirdNET-Pi/birdnet/lib/python3.9/site-packages/apprise/AppriseAsset.py", line 157, in init
11:03:48--- raise AttributeError(
11:03:48---AttributeError: AppriseAsset init(): An invalid key plugin_paths was specified.

In the code tab I see notifications.py "Merge pull request #724 [from knmurphy/enable-apprise-plugins

That has

asset = apprise.AppriseAsset(
plugin_paths=[
userDir + "/.apprise/plugins",
userDir + "/.config/apprise/plugins",
]
)

I have no .apprise directory on my system. I do have .config but it does not have an apprise subdirectory

[srchild]

birdnet/lib64/python3.9/site-packages/apprise/AppriseAsset.py does not initialise plugin_paths

def __init__(self, **kwargs):
    """
    Asset Initialization

    """
    # Assign default arguments if specified
    for key, value in kwargs.items():
        if not hasattr(AppriseAsset, key):
            raise AttributeError(
                'AppriseAsset init(): '
                'An invalid key {} was specified.'.format(key))

        setattr(self, key, value)

In my other installation (which I have not updated today) plugin_paths is initialised in birdnet/lib64/python3.9/site-packages/apprise/AppriseAsset.py

def __init__(self, plugin_paths=None, **kwargs):
    """
    Asset Initialization

    """
    # Assign default arguments if specified
    for key, value in kwargs.items():
        if not hasattr(AppriseAsset, key):
            raise AttributeError(
                'AppriseAsset init(): '
                'An invalid key {} was specified.'.format(key))

        setattr(self, key, value)

    if plugin_paths:
        # Load any decorated modules if defined
        module_detection(plugin_paths)

[ehpersonal38]

I'm sorry about this - I committed some code to the repo which seems to have broken things. I've reverted the change so an update should bring your installation back to a working state. (Although I see you've already reinstalled.)

[caronc]

If you don't mind, I'm just observing this, but if there is a way i can add more bulletproofing to Apprise, let me know.

Was the plugin path added pointing back to a large library? I'm trying to understand what it tried to load under the hood in this case

[ehpersonal38]

Here's the pull request that was merged in, it has some additional details: #724

Other than that I'm not sure on any of the technical details.

[caronc]

Shouldn't cause any harm unless the version of Apprise on the system wasn't at least v1.0. Maybe in the PR reference, the requirements.txt didn't include apprise>=1.0.0?

[ehpersonal38]

I did some tests with different Apprise versions and I can confirm your suspicions. Anything < version 1.0 results in the same error as the OP.

I'll implement a fix for this soon - thanks @caronc for troubleshooting this.