TypeError: 'str' object does not support item assignment

[DionAkkerman]

The vast majority of the time this situation does not arise but when querying a certain IP I get the following traceback:

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "", line 1, in
ip_output = api_client.ip(lama)
File ".../greynoise/api/init.py", line 233, in ip
response["ip"] = ip_address

TypeError: 'str' object does not support item assignment

This seems to occur when the query returns an empty string. if I monkeypatch the ip method in
greynoise/api/init.py using:

try:
    if "ip" not in response:
        response["ip"] = ip_address
except:
    response = {"ip": ip_address, "out": response}

instead of the original:

if "ip" not in response:
    response["ip"] = ip_address

The issue does not occur and I can see that 'response' was an empty string.

[Andrew Morris]

Thanks so much for catching this. Can you give me an IP that this error is occurring on for us to troubleshoot on the server side? I think we should handle this on both the client and the server side.

[Andrew Morris]

Fixed. There was a bug in the API when processing certain rare cases.

[Andrew Morris]

Thanks @DionAkkerman for reporting!