threading.Timer.isAlive deprecation

[parkl-ee]

I believe since Splunk 9.3, the internal python version changed from 3.7 to 3.9, which dropped a deprecated method within the threading library's Timer class: isAlive (threading.Timer.isAlive). It has been replaced with threading.Timer.is_alive

The traceback is fragmented into multiple events. However, this is the important part:
ERROR ExecProcessor [2270 ExecProcessor] - message from "/opt/splunk/bin/python3.9 /opt/splunk/etc/apps/SplunkVersionControl/bin/splunkversioncontrol_backup.py" AttributeError: 'Timer' object has no attribute 'isAlive'

This removed method is still being used within /bin/splunkversioncontrol_utility.py:38:
if not timer.isAlive():

In theory, we can replace line 38 with the following, preserving backwards compatibility:
if not getattr(timer, "isAlive", getattr(timer, "is_alive"))(): # Compatibility with >py3.8

Hoping this can be resolved quickly as it seems this app has been broken since the python version change.

[gjanders]

Thanks for letting me know, that fix looks valid, I'll try to test it today

[gjanders]

Works as expected

[gjanders]

Released 1.2.12 on Splunkbase

[parkl-ee]

Seems to be working again in my Splunk 9.3.2 environments after updating. Thank you very much for your quick response and resolution!

[gjanders]

Thanks for the code tweak!