Bucket types no longer work using the 2.5.2 client against riak TS 1.3 [JIRA: CLIENTS-846]

[point9repeating]

I've built a dev cluster using the TS 1.3.0.1 image for ubuntu 14.04 found here:
http://s3.amazonaws.com/downloads.basho.com/riak_ts/1.3/1.3.0/ubuntu/trusty/riak-ts_1.3.0-1_amd64.deb

The following raises "NotImplementedError: Server does not support bucket-types":

import riak
nodes = [{"host": "127.0.0.1", "http_port": 47001, "pb_port": 47101}]
client = riak.RiakClient(nodes=nodes)
client.bucket_type("grid-point").bucket("foo").get("anything")

[point9repeating]

FYI, when we dug into the feature detection, it looks like the client expects to see a version > 2.0 if bucket types are supported.

But, my client is seeing 0.8.0 as the server version:

In [5]: with client._transport() as transport:
   ...:     print transport.get_server_info()
   ...:     
{'node': 'riak@192.168.0.6', 'server_version': '0.8.0'}

[lukebakken]

This is an issue with Riak TS. I'll put a workaround in the Python client. As an initial workaround, you can hard-code the server version returned here to be 2.1.4:

https://github.com/basho/riak-python-client/blob/master/riak/transports/tcp/transport.py#L78-L81

[bobhall]

Interestingly, I can't reproduce this same issue but I installed Riak 1.3 using riak-ts-ee_1.3.0-1_amd64.deb.

[lukebakken]

@bobhall - if you have a sec, could you run the code that @point9repeating provided above and post the output of get_server_info() here? Thanks! 😄 🍥

[bobhall]

(Pdb) with client._transport() as transport: print transport.get_server_info()
=>
{'node': 'riak@192.168.0.3', 'server_version': '2.1.1'}

[lukebakken]

@bobhall - thank you very much for that information.

[lukebakken]

@bobhall @point9repeating we've confirmed this only affects the OSS release of Riak TS:

basho/riak#835