kubernetes/kops · error

invalid google cloud URL (unexpected regions): %q

Error message

invalid google cloud URL (unexpected regions): %q

What it means

Same tokenizer, regions case: 'regions' must be followed by exactly two more tokens (region and resource); if the URL ends right after 'regions/', this guard fires. It protects deleteTargetPool, deleteGCEDisk, etc. from parsing incomplete self-links.

Source

Thrown at upup/pkg/fi/cloudup/gce/gce_url.go:99

		}
		t := tokens[pos]
		switch {
		case t == "projects":
			pos++
			if pos >= len(tokens) {
				return nil, fmt.Errorf("invalid google cloud URL (unexpected projects): %q", u)
			}
			parsed.Project = tokens[pos]
		case t == "zones":
			pos++
			if pos >= len(tokens) {
				return nil, fmt.Errorf("invalid google cloud URL (unexpected zones): %q", u)
			}
			parsed.Zone = tokens[pos]
		case t == "regions" && ((pos + 2) < len(tokens)):
			pos++
			if pos >= len(tokens) {
				return nil, fmt.Errorf("invalid google cloud URL (unexpected regions): %q", u)
			}
			parsed.Region = tokens[pos]
		case t == "global":
			parsed.Global = true
		default:
			parsed.Type = tokens[pos]
			pos++
			if pos >= len(tokens) {
				return nil, fmt.Errorf("invalid google cloud URL (no name): %q", u)
			}
			parsed.Name = tokens[pos]
			pos++
			if pos != len(tokens) {
				return nil, fmt.Errorf("invalid google cloud URL (content after name): %q", u)
			} else {
				return parsed, nil
			}
		}

View on GitHub (pinned to 4c8573c808)

Solutions

  1. Include the region name after 'regions/' in the URL
  2. Fix truncated self-links
Defensive patterns

Strategy: validation

When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at upup/pkg/fi/cloudup/gce/gce_url.go:99 when the library encounters an invalid state.

Common situations: See trigger scenarios.

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