Unable to connect to JIRA using Python Plugin. “TypeError: expected string or bytes-like object”

[Krishna Teja Medam]

I am using the JIRA Python plugin (https://github.com/pycontribs/jira#jira-python-library) to connect to JIRA with the below py code. I worked with Atlassian Python plugin as well with different py code but ended up with another error "AttributeError: 'dict' object has no attribute 'auth'". Because of this I moved to JIRA Python plugin which showed some progress but then stuck again. Copied the Jira cookies from chrome browser.

```python
from jira import JIRA
JiraCookies = [
{
"domain": "jira.domain.com",
"hostOnly": True,
"httpOnly": False,
"name": "atlassian.xsrf.token",
"path": "/",
"sameSite": "unspecified",
"secure": True,
"session": True,
"storeId": "0",
"value": "have-some-code",
"id": 1
},
{
"domain": "jira.domain.com",
"hostOnly": True,
"httpOnly": True,
"name": "JSESSIONID",
"path": "/",
"sameSite": "unspecified",
"secure": True,
"session": True,
"storeId": "0",
"value": "have some code",
"id": 2
}
]
server = 'server'
usrnme = "uid"
pwd = "pwd"
jira_instance = str(JIRA(auth=(usrnme, pwd), options={'server': server,'cookies': JiraCookies[0]}))

jira_instance.issue(key = "Issue-123", fields = ["issuetype", "status", "summary"])
```
I get the below error. Please help with what I am missing.

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "U:\Profile\K\projects\Jira-Python\atlassianInstall.py", line 33, in <module>
jira_instance = str(JIRA(auth=(usrnme, pwd), options={'server': server,'cookies': JiraCookies[0]}))
File "C:\Users\uid\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\jira\client.py", line 462, in __init__
user = self.session(auth)
File "C:\Users\uid\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\jira\client.py", line 2446, in session
r = self._session.post(url, data=json.dumps(authentication_data))
File "C:\Users\uid\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\jira\resilientsession.py", line 154, in post
return self.__verb('POST', url, **kwargs)
File "C:\Users\uid\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\jira\resilientsession.py", line 125, in __verb
response = method(url, timeout=self.timeout, **kwargs)
File "C:\Users\uid\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\requests\sessions.py", line 590, in post
return self.request('POST', url, data=data, json=json, **kwargs)
File "C:\Users\uid\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\requests\sessions.py", line 528, in request
prep = self.prepare_request(req)
File "C:\Users\uid\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\requests\sessions.py", line 456, in prepare_request
p.prepare(
File "C:\Users\uid\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\requests\models.py", line 318, in prepare
self.prepare_cookies(cookies)
File "C:\Users\uid\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\requests\models.py", line 575, in prepare_cookies
cookie_header = get_cookie_header(self._cookies, self)
File "C:\Users\uid\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\requests\cookies.py", line 142, in get_cookie_header
jar.add_cookie_header(r)
File "C:\Users\uid\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\http\cookiejar.py", line 1367, in add_cookie_header
attrs = self._cookie_attrs(cookies)
File "C:\Users\uid\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\http\cookiejar.py", line 1326, in _cookie_attrs
self.non_word_re.search(cookie.value) and version > 0):
TypeError: expected string or bytes-like object

If I remove "cookies" from options, I get the below error:

WARNING:root:Got recoverable error from POST https://jira.domain.com:444/rest/auth/1/session, will retry [2/3] in 3.953182659843959s. Err: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='jira.domain.com', port=444): Max retries exceeded with url: /rest/auth/1/session (Caused by SSLError(SSLCertVerificationError(1, '[SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: self signed certificate in certificate chain (_ssl.c:1123)')))
WARNING:root:HTTPSConnectionPool(host='jira.domain.com', port=444): Max retries exceeded with url: /rest/auth/1/session (Caused by SSLError(SSLCertVerificationError(1, '[SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: self signed certificate in certificate chain (_ssl.c:1123)'))) while doing POST https://jira.domain.com:444/rest/auth/1/session [{'data': '{"username": "uid", "password": "pwd"}', 'headers': {'User-Agent': 'python-requests/2.25.1', 'Accept-Encoding': 'gzip, deflate', 'Accept': 'application/json,*.*;q=0.9', 'Connection': 'keep-alive', 'Cache-Control': 'no-cache', 'Content-Type': 'application/json', 'X-Atlassian-Token': 'no-check'}}]
WARNING:root:Got ConnectionError [HTTPSConnectionPool(host='jira.domain.com', port=444): Max retries exceeded with url: /rest/auth/1/session (Caused by SSLError(SSLCertVerificationError(1, '[SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: self signed certificate in certificate chain (_ssl.c:1123)')))] errno:None on POST https://jira.domain.com:444/rest/auth/1/session
{'response': None, 'request': <PreparedRequest [POST]>}\{'response': None, 'request': <PreparedRequest [POST]>}
WARNING:root:Got recoverable error from POST https://jira.domain.com:444/rest/auth/1/session, will retry [3/3] in 29.1680272787147s. Err: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='jira.domain.com', port=444): Max retries exceeded with url: /rest/auth/1/session (Caused by SSLError(SSLCertVerificationError(1, '[SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: self signed certificate in certificate chain (_ssl.c:1123)')))
WARNING:root:HTTPSConnectionPool(host='jira.domain.com', port=444): Max retries exceeded with url: /rest/auth/1/session (Caused by SSLError(SSLCertVerificationError(1, '[SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: self signed certificate in certificate chain (_ssl.c:1123)'))) while doing POST https://jira.domain.com:444/rest/auth/1/session [{'data': '{"username": "uid", "password": "pwd"}', 'headers': {'User-Agent': 'python-requests/2.25.1', 'Accept-Encoding': 'gzip, deflate', 'Accept': 'application/json,*.*;q=0.9', 'Connection': 'keep-alive', 'Cache-Control': 'no-cache', 'Content-Type': 'application/json', 'X-Atlassian-Token': 'no-check'}}]
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\uid\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\urllib3\connectionpool.py", line 699, in urlopen
httplib_response = self._make_request(
File "C:\Users\uid\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\urllib3\connectionpool.py", line 382, in _make_request
self._validate_conn(conn)
File "C:\Users\uid\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\urllib3\connectionpool.py", line 1010, in _validate_conn
conn.connect()
File "C:\Users\uid\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\urllib3\connection.py", line 411, in connect
self.sock = ssl_wrap_socket(
File "C:\Users\uid\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\urllib3\util\ssl_.py", line 428, in ssl_wrap_socket
ssl_sock = _ssl_wrap_socket_impl(
File "C:\Users\uid\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\urllib3\util\ssl_.py", line 472, in _ssl_wrap_socket_impl
return ssl_context.wrap_socket(sock, server_hostname=server_hostname)
File "C:\Users\uid\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\ssl.py", line 500, in wrap_socket
return self.sslsocket_class._create(
File "C:\Users\uid\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\ssl.py", line 1040, in _create
self.do_handshake()
File "C:\Users\uid\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\ssl.py", line 1309, in do_handshake
self._sslobj.do_handshake()
ssl.SSLCertVerificationError: [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: self signed certificate in certificate chain (_ssl.c:1123)

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\uid\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\requests\adapters.py", line 439, in send
resp = conn.urlopen(
File "C:\Users\uid\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\urllib3\connectionpool.py", line 755, in urlopen
retries = retries.increment(
File "C:\Users\uid\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\urllib3\util\retry.py", line 574, in increment
raise MaxRetryError(_pool, url, error or ResponseError(cause))
urllib3.exceptions.MaxRetryError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='jira.domain.com', port=444): Max retries exceeded with url: /rest/auth/1/session (Caused by SSLError(SSLCertVerificationError(1, '[SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: self signed certificate in certificate chain (_ssl.c:1123)')))

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "U:\Profile\K\projects\Jira-Python\atlassianInstall.py", line 33, in <module>
jira_instance = str(JIRA(auth=(usrnme, pwd), options={'server': server}))
File "C:\Users\uid\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\jira\client.py", line 462, in __init__
user = self.session(auth)
File "C:\Users\uid\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\jira\client.py", line 2446, in session
r = self._session.post(url, data=json.dumps(authentication_data))
File "C:\Users\uid\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\jira\resilientsession.py", line 154, in post
return self.__verb('POST', url, **kwargs)
File "C:\Users\uid\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\jira\resilientsession.py", line 146, in __verb
raise exception
File "C:\Users\uid\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\jira\resilientsession.py", line 125, in __verb
response = method(url, timeout=self.timeout, **kwargs)
File "C:\Users\uid\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\requests\sessions.py", line 590, in post
return self.request('POST', url, data=data, json=json, **kwargs)
File "C:\Users\uid\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\requests\sessions.py", line 542, in request
resp = self.send(prep, **send_kwargs)
File "C:\Users\uid\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\requests\sessions.py", line 655, in send
r = adapter.send(request, **kwargs)
File "C:\Users\uid\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\requests\adapters.py", line 514, in send
raise SSLError(e, request=request)
requests.exceptions.SSLError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='jira.domain.com', port=444): Max retries exceeded with url: /rest/auth/1/session (Caused by SSLError(SSLCertVerificationError(1, '[SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: self signed certificate in certificate chain (_ssl.c:1123)')))

[Nir Haimov]

Hi @Krishna Teja Medam 

Personally, i don't like to work with any of the libraries, just use "requests" and write simple API calls, that should work perfectly without breaking your mind on whats wrong with the library or with what you do wrong...

[Krishna Teja Medam]

Hello Nir,

You are right, I see lot of people (professional/best programmers) commenting in GIT to fix this bug or that bug with the plugin but I am a newbie who rely on plugins to clear the clutter on the background work. I will eventually work out that way.

BTW, I fixed the issue by installing "python-certifi-win32", another ""plugin"" :D . Again, as per your point, I don't know how it got fixed. I will learn more. Thanks.