Pocket confirmer bots: bug fixed; please upgrade to latest code now!

in #pocket7 years ago


(If you are not running a confirmer bot, feel free to ignore this message! Keep using Pocket as you always have!)

Today Pocket gave me a chance to prove that I'm still around and still paying attention to the protocol. About a day ago, it appears that all of the confirmation bots except for @kata got stuck at a particular block. There is a method in the Steem Python library called get_replies() that inexplicably stopped working. The code needs this method to look for confirmation messages to pocketsend commands, and without it, all bots just hung. Except @kata. My suspicion is that the method doesn't fail if a pocketsend has no replies, and @kata just happened to be the first one past the gate when the bug turned up.

In any case, once I found the problem I fixed it quite easily by simply using a lower-level method to query the necessary replies. I've merged the changes into all branches, so whichever you are using should be good to go. Cheers!

As always, if you need a Bitshares account so you can trade POCKET IOU tokens issued by @virtualgrowth, you can sign up for Bitshares using this link.

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Surprising. Than bot did stuck I've updated python-steem to the new url https://api.steemit.com. It worked. I was thinking that RPC server uri change was causing this.

Anyway, I'll update the code. Thank you for staying around!

I run my own steemd node, and my bot got stuck too. So I don't know. Right, I need to update the urls in the default config file too.

It is nice that python-steem updated too. It will fix problem from both ends.

By the way, what version number do you have of python-steem?

I've pulled version with latest commit 6467801565be992140a1234ea9a4987aa6fd71ee (did not find the actual version number there)

I did the same only earlier today and bot started to process blocks - and I am still running version without this fix. Before this change I've got a lot of errors:

2018-01-10 18:20:48,615 DEBUG root Switched node to steemd.steemit.com due to exception: MaxRetryError

so I also assumed that this is connected with killing of steemd.steemit.com.

What is worth mentioning, I had to change steemd.steemit.com to api.steemit.com in steem-python code (setting any nodes in configuration file did not fixed anything). Nevertheless I will also try to update to newer version tonight.

Right, that makes sense. I wonder why my local steemd was having the problem too. Weird.

In any case, I need to do a comprehensive upgrade to get it compatible with the official steem-python.

pocketsend:2@biophil, just finished updating, checking.

Successful Send of 2
Sending Account: kata
Receiving Account: biophil
New sending account balance: 76
New receiving account balance: 828172
Fee: 1
Steem trxid: 9a9ac171bf36c3b5f31b776656eb3a9498cad214
Thanks for using POCKET! I am running this confirmer code.

looks like @pocket-pi is working now too.

...and now is running the latest develop branch code too. :-) Regards.

Successful Send of 2
Sending Account: kata
Receiving Account: biophil
New sending account balance: 76
New receiving account balance: 828172
Fee: 1
Steem trxid: 9a9ac171bf36c3b5f31b776656eb3a9498cad214
Thanks for using POCKET! I am small bot and right now I am running this code.

pocketsend:1@pocket-pi, test

Successful Send of 1
Sending Account: pocket-pi
Receiving Account: pocket-pi
New sending account balance: 141807
New receiving account balance: 141807
Fee: 1
Steem trxid: 3d190ebc974b4e4e8bc8120660628cc8066b8544
Thanks for using POCKET! I am small bot and right now I am running this code.

Successful Send of 1
Sending Account: pocket-pi
Receiving Account: pocket-pi
New sending account balance: 141807
New receiving account balance: 141807
Fee: 1
Steem trxid: 3d190ebc974b4e4e8bc8120660628cc8066b8544
Thanks for using POCKET! I am running this confirmer code.

Thanks! You're right, flagged.

pocketsend:1@biophil

Successful Send of 1
Sending Account: biophil
Receiving Account: biophil
New sending account balance: 828120
New receiving account balance: 828120
Fee: 1
Steem trxid: 732128f75c91665da6aa0d562d1cc1dd0f185f6f
Thanks for using POCKET! I am running this confirmer code.

Successful Send of 1
Sending Account: biophil
Receiving Account: biophil
New sending account balance: 828120
New receiving account balance: 828120
Fee: 1
Steem trxid: 732128f75c91665da6aa0d562d1cc1dd0f185f6f
Thanks for using POCKET! I am a confirmer bot for fun, view my source confirmer code here. Don't know what a POCKET Token is? Here is a link to the official announcement post.

I think somebody once sent me some pocket...

how do i know if I have pocket... if I sound confused, that's because I am.

pocketsend:1@fraenk, just send one to yourself like this and a bot will reply if your have some.

Successful Send of 1
Sending Account: biophil
Receiving Account: fraenk
New sending account balance: 828122
New receiving account balance: 100
Fee: 1
Steem trxid: 37d414f7f5976a084b1afc04625be9d7992af3cb
Thanks for using POCKET! I am running this confirmer code.

pocketsend:1@fraenk, this is a test

Successful Send of 1
Sending Account: fraenk
Receiving Account: fraenk
New sending account balance: 99
New receiving account balance: 99
Fee: 1
Steem trxid: 9053db4ff109b3268a8e2dd4fd9abd680260208a
Thanks for using POCKET! I am running this confirmer code.

ok... I get it now! Thanks for helping me be less confused!

is there a solution to the solution earlier?

Folow me pliss

This is very useful information, many thanks have told us.

pocketsend:1@knowledges

Successful Send of 1
Sending Account: knowledges
Receiving Account: knowledges
New sending account balance: 999947
New receiving account balance: 999947
Fee: 1
Steem trxid: 1191ecfd4f1ad590545c3615edc5c34396f8d472
Thanks for using POCKET! I am running this confirmer code.

it turns out after study and I share this post I will try to register to betshare.

Wow.. Thanks for sharing this. Nice one

Very interesting post!
Very interesting to see.