When using Satellite 5.5 API, an 'xml.parsers.expat.ExpatError is encountered' if searching for an rpm package that has an empty description

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Encountering the following error when searching for a package via the Satellite API:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./test.py", line 17, in <module>
    package_match_list=client.packages.search.name(session, package_name)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/xmlrpclib.py", line 1199, in __call__
    return self.__send(self.__name, args)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/xmlrpclib.py", line 1489, in __request
    verbose=self.__verbose
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/xmlrpclib.py", line 1253, in request
    return self._parse_response(h.getfile(), sock)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/xmlrpclib.py", line 1387, in _parse_response
    p.feed(response)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/xmlrpclib.py", line 601, in feed
    self._parser.Parse(data, 0)
xml.parsers.expat.ExpatError: XML or text declaration not at start of entity: line 1, column 96

Environment

  • Red Hat Network Satellite 5.4, 5.5
  • Satellite API

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