Storing results on the codechecker UI

[RakshanPremsagar]

I have generated the compilation database(json file) and have analysed them to a results folder( This process is on a different container - Lets say A)

I have the codechecker container (server) running at port 8001. I want to store the results from my anaylsis on to the server.

After the anaylsis was done, I wrote the following command on the container A:
CodeChecker store reports --name example --url http://codechecker.de/Default

I get the following response:

[INFO 2024-05-08 06:37] - Storing analysis results for run 'example'
[INFO 2024-05-08 06:37] - Checking local passwords or tokens in /root/.codechecker.passwords.json
[INFO 2024-05-08 06:37] - Password file not found.
[INFO 2024-05-08 06:37] - Checking for local valid sessions.
[ERROR 2024-05-08 06:37] - Thrift invalid data error.
[ERROR 2024-05-08 06:37] - getAuthParameters
[ERROR 2024-05-08 06:37] - []
[ERROR 2024-05-08 06:37] - {}
[ERROR 2024-05-08 06:37] - Request failed.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/codechecker/build/CodeChecker/lib/python3/codechecker_client/thrift_call.py", line 45, in wrapper
    return func(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/codechecker_api/Authentication_v6/codeCheckerAuthentication.py", line 162, in getAuthParameters
    return self.recv_getAuthParameters()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/codechecker_api/Authentication_v6/codeCheckerAuthentication.py", line 173, in recv_getAuthParameters
    (fname, mtype, rseqid) = iprot.readMessageBegin()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/thrift/protocol/TJSONProtocol.py", line 417, in readMessageBegin
    self.readJSONArrayStart()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/thrift/protocol/TJSONProtocol.py", line 405, in readJSONArrayStart
    self.readJSONSyntaxChar(LBRACKET)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/thrift/protocol/TJSONProtocol.py", line 255, in readJSONSyntaxChar
    raise TProtocolException(TProtocolException.INVALID_DATA,
thrift.protocol.TProtocol.TProtocolException: Unexpected character: b'<'

Questions:

1. Is it the case that the store method needs to be run on the CodeChecker container?
2. When setting up authentication for the server, we modify the server_config, add the users there and expect the new users to login on container restart?
3. What is with the [INFO 2024-05-08 06:37] - Checking local passwords or tokens in /root/.codechecker.passwords.json? Do we have to setup another file here?

[bruntib]

Hi @RakshanPremsagar,

1. The CodeChecker server should be available from the machine where CodeChecker store runs. Make sure that the network connection between them is properly set. By default, CodeChecker enables local connections only. Try starting the server like this: CodeChecker server --not-host-only. Also, provide the port number at storage, otherwise the default port 80 is used: CodeChecker store --url https://codechecker.de:8001/Default. It might be useful to know that the default value of --url flag is http://localhost:8001/Default.
2. Yes, if you setup the authentication in server config, then server needs to restart to read this information.
3. If you setup authentication to the server, then users need to login first: CodeChecker cmd login. The file .codechecker.passwords.json shouldn't be written manually.

The error message above indicates a network issue, so I would say that the answer should be around question 1.