Keyword Search Raises AttributeError

[utkonos]

Again, this is probably user error or missing dependency, but if I binref email I get the following:

% binref email
_________ __       __________     ______
\_____   \__| ____/   ______/____/ ____/
 ||  | __/  |/    \  /__|  / __ \   __/ 
 ||  |   \  |   |  \_  _| \  ___/|  |   
 ||____  /__|___|__/  / |  \____]|__|   
 ======\/=========\  /==|__|============
   binary refinery \/ full text search  

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
usage: iffp [-h] [-L] [-Q] [-0] [-v] [-R] [-p] [-r] [pattern ...]

Filter incoming chunks depending on whether it matches any of a given set of
patterns. The available patterns are the following: integer, float, number,
string, multiline_string, cmdstr, ps1str, vbastr, vbaint, printable, urlquote,
urlquote_coarse, urlquote_narrow, intarray, numarray, word, letters, wshenc,
alphanumeric, b32, b64, b85, b92, b64any, b64url, hex, uppercase_hex,
spaced_hex, spaced_b64, spaced_b85, utf8, hexdump, hexarray, uuencode, domain,
email, guid, ipv4, ipv6, md5, sha1, sha256, hostname, socket, subdomain, url,
btc, pem, xmr, path, winpath, nixpath, environment_variable.

Note: The reverse operation of a conditional unit uses the logical negation of
its condition.

positional arguments:
  pattern

options:
  -p, --partial  Allow partial matches on the data.
  -r, --retain   Move non-matching chunks out of scope rather than discarding
                 them.

generic options:
  -h, --help     Show this help message and exit.
  -L, --lenient  Allow partial results as output.
  -Q, --quiet    Disables all log output.
  -0, --devnull  Do not produce any output.
  -v, --verbose  Specify up to two times to increase log level.
  -R, --reverse  Use the reverse operation.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/username/Applications/BinaryRefinery/venv/bin/binref", line 8, in <module>
    sys.exit(explorer())
             ~~~~~~~~^^
  File "/Users/username/Applications/BinaryRefinery/venv/lib/python3.13/site-packages/refinery/explore.py", line 157, in explorer
    unit = getattr(refinery, name)
  File "/Users/username/Applications/BinaryRefinery/venv/lib/python3.13/site-packages/refinery/__init__.py", line 205, in __getattr__
    raise AttributeError(name)
AttributeError: uuenc

[huettenhain]

This is an odd error and I cannot reproduce it locally. From the error message, it looks like the unit cache is corrupted. There is a unit called uuenc and you should have it registered as a command-line executable, and the binref code should be able to find it via the invocation of

import refinery
# ...
getattr(refinery, 'uuenc')

which is what is failing here.

In the root directory of the refinery package, there should be a file called __init__.pkl which contains the pickled unit cache. You can try deleting that file, the cache will be re-populated, that might fix it. Otherwise, the best I can recommend is re-installing refinery in a clean virtual environment.

[utkonos]

This fixed it. Thanks.

rm lib/python3.13/site-packages/refinery/__init__.pkl

On the very first run after deleting that file I got this error message, but the search worked and everything printed after the error just fine.

% binref email
ERROR:root:could not load refinery.units.encoding.uuenc because uu is missing.

On subsequent runs of the same binref email everything works without any errors.

[huettenhain]

Something to consider about this import failure. I made some changes in 4cf3346 that will prevent failures to explore the uuenc unit when there's problems with importing uu.