[BEAM-7593] Building Python SDK harness fails to build without virtualenv pre-installed

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: P3
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: sdk-py-harness
• Labels: portability
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: jjbankert
• Created: 19/Jun/19 10:24
• Updated: 04/Jun/22 12:39

Description

Hi all,

 

I tried building the python sdk harness according to https://beam.apache.org/documentation/runners/flink/ and it failed for me when I didn't have virtualenv installed (and succeeded after I did install it for the system python env).

Specific error message:

> Task :sdks:python:setupVirtualenv FAILED

and below

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':sdks:python:setupVirtualenv'.
> A problem occurred starting process 'command 'virtualenv''

Not sure if this can be fixed with gradle or if it's easier to just publish the docker image so I don't need to build it myself. Alternatively the virtualenv prerequisite could also be added to the guide of course.