issues with renew slice using 1.3

[Gregory Daues]

When trying to use example code from

https://github.com/fabric-testbed/jupyter-examples/blob/master/fabric_examples/fablib_api/renew_slice/renew_slice.ipynb

end_date = (datetime.datetime.utcnow() + datetime.timedelta(days=6)).strftime(“%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S”)

slice.renew(end_date)

 

to renew a slice using 1.3 for fabrictestbed, fabrictestbed_extensions , I see an error

Exception: Failed to renew slice: Status.INVALID_ARGUMENTS, Lease End Time 2022-09-13 15:52:03 should be in format: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %z

Is there an updated code sample for renew slice ?    Handling the time zone in python datetime looks like it takes some special treatment.

 

 

[Komal Thareja]

Thank you for let us know! We will work on fixing the example. Please use the snippet below to renew the slice.
Hope this helps!

 

import datetime

#Set end host to now plus 1 day
now = datetime.now(timezone.utc)
end_date = now + timedelta(days=6).strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %z")

try:
slice = fablib.get_slice(name=slice_name)

slice.renew(end_date)
except Exception as e:
print(f"Exception: {e}")

[Gregory Daues]

Thanks; I was able to get the renew slice to work with snippets along those lines.
My scripting that worked looked something like

import datetime
from datetime import timedelta

now = datetime.datetime.now(datetime.timezone.utc)
end_date = (now + timedelta(days=6)).strftime(“%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %z”)

slice = fablib.get_slice(name=slice_name)
slice.renew(end_date)

where I imagine that can be cleaned up a bit.

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