fails cleanly if root node is unavailable

ganglia · Jul 17, 2015 · e23009b · e23009b
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commit e23009b
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diff --git a/elasticsearch/python_modules/elasticsearch.py b/elasticsearch/python_modules/elasticsearch.py
@@ -187,7 +187,10 @@ def metric_init(params):
 
     host = params.get('host', 'http://localhost:9200/')
 
-    result = json.load(urllib.urlopen(host))
+    try:
+        result = json.load(urllib.urlopen(host))
+    except (ValueError, IOError):
+        result = {}
 
     host_version = result.get('version',{}).get('number') or "1.2"
     version = params.get('version', host_version)