Parser is failing upon test with SImulator

[gnthibault]

Thank you very much for your work with this library !

I tried to integrate this in place of the "official" Pyindi module, that breaks every now and then, and is not really maintained as an integral part of indilib.

Unfortunately, I faced an issue while doing test with simulators:

The error is:

File "/usr/lib/python3.8/threading.py", line 1254, in run
self.function(*self.args, **self.kwargs)
File "/home/user/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/indiclient-0.1.dev102+gfe5cb72-py3.8.egg/indiclient/indiclient.py", line 2034, in _receiver
self._receive()
File "/home/user/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/indiclient-0.1.dev102+gfe5cb72-py3.8.egg/indiclient/indiclient.py", line 2355, in _receive
self._receive() parseval = self.expat.Parse(data, 0)
File "/home/user/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/indiclient-0.1.dev102+gfe5cb72-py3.8.egg/indiclient/indiclient.py", line 2355, in _receive
xml.parsers.expat.ExpatError: mismatched tag: line 482, column 2
parseval = self.expat.Parse(data, 0)
xml.parsers.expat.ExpatError: mismatched tag: line 219, column 2
python-BaseException
python-BaseException

Here is the current buffer that was currently being parsed:
data

Out[2]: b'2">\n1024\n </defNumber>\n <defNumber name="SIM_XSIZE" label="CCD X Pixel Size" format="%4.2f" min="1" max="30" step="5">\n5.2000000000000001776\n </defNumber>\n <defNumber name="SIM_YSIZE" label="CCD Y Pixel Size" format="%4.2f" min="1" max="30" step="5">\n5.2000000000000001776\n </defNumber>\n <defNumber name="SIM_MAXVAL" label="CCD Maximum ADU" format="%4.0f" min="255" max="65000" step="1000">\n65000\n </defNumber>\n <defNumber name="SIM_SATURATION" label="Saturation Mag" format="%4.1f" min="0" max="20" step="1">\n1\n </defNumber>\n <defNumber name="SIM_LIMITINGMAG" label="Limiting Mag" format="%4.1f" min="0" max="20" step="1">\n17\n </defNumber>\n <defNumber name="SIM_NOISE" label="CCD Noise" format="%4.0f" min="0" max="6000" step="500">\n10\n </defNumber>\n <defNumber name="SIM_SKYGLOW" label="Sky Glow (magnitudes)" format="%4.1f" min="0" max="6000" step="500">\n19.5\n </defNumber>\n <defNumber name="SIM_OAGOFFSET" label="Oag Offset (arcminutes)" format="%4.1f" min="0" max="6000" step="500">\n0\n </defNumber>\n <defNumber name="SIM_POLAR" label="PAE (arcminutes)" format="%4.1f" min="-600" max="600" step="100">\n0\n </defNumber>\n <defNumber name="SIM_POLARDRIFT" label="PAE Drift (minutes)" format="%4.1f" min="0" max="60" step="5">\n0\n </defNumber>\n <defNumber name="SIM_PEPERIOD" label="PE Period (minutes)" format="%4.1f" min="0" max="60" step="5">\n0\n </defNumber>\n <defNumber name="SIM_PEMAX" label="PE Max (arcsec)" format="%4.1f" min="0" max="6000" step="500">\n0\n </defNumber>\n <defNumber name="SIM_TIME_FACTOR" label="Time Factor (x)" format="%.2f" min="0.010000000000000000208" max="100" step="10">\n1\n </defNumber>\n <defNumber name="SIM_ROTATION" label="CCD Rotation" format="%.2f" min="0" max="360" step="10">\n0\n </defNumber>\n</defNumberVector>\n<defNumberVector device="CCD Simulator" name="EQUATORIAL_PE" label="EQ PE" group="Simulator Config" state="Idle" perm="rw" timeout="60" timestamp="2021-10-01T15:58:30">\n <defNumber name="RA_PE" label="RA (hh:mm:ss)" format="%010.6m" min="0" max="24" step="0">\n0\n </defNumber>\n <defNumber name="DEC_PE" label="DEC (dd:mm:ss)" format="%010.6m" min="-90" max="90" step="0">\n0\n </defNumber>\n</defNumberVector>\n<defNumberVector device="CCD Simulator" name="SIM_FOCUSING" label="Focus Simulation" group="Simulator Config" state="Idle" perm="rw" timeout="60" timestamp="2021-10-01T15:58:30">\n <defNumber name="SIM_FOCUS_POSITION" label="Focus" format="%.f" min="0" max="100000" step="1">\n36700\n </defNumber>\n <defNumber name="SIM_FOCUS_MAX" label="Max. Position" format="%.f" min="0" max="100000" step="1">\n100000\n </defNumber>\n <defNumber name="SIM_SEEING" label="Seeing (arcsec)" format="%4.2f" min="0" max="60" step="0">\n3.5\n </defNumber>\n</defNumberVector>\n<defSwitchVector device="CCD Simulator" name="SIMULATE_BAYER" label="Bayer" group="Simulator Config" state="Idle" perm="rw" rule="OneOfMany" timeout="60" timestamp="2021-10-01T15:58:30">\n <defSwitch name="INDI_ENABLED" label="Enabled">\nOff\n </defSwitch>\n <defSwitch name="INDI_DISABLED" label="Disabled">\nOn\n </defSwitch>\n</defSwitchVector>\n<defSwitchVector device="CCD Simulator" name="CCD_SIMULATE_CRASH" label="Crash" group="Simulator Config" state="Idle" perm="wo" rule="AtMostOne" timeout="0" timestamp="2021-10-01T15:58:30">\n <defSwitch name="CRASH" label="Crash driver">\nOff\n </defSwitch>\n</defSwitchVector>\n<defNumberVector device="Telescope Simulator" name="TELESCOPE_INFO" label="Scope Properties" group="Options" state="Ok" perm="rw" timeout="60" timestamp="2021-10-01T15:58:30">\n <defNumber name="TELESCOPE_APERTURE" label="Aperture (mm)" format="%g" min="10" max="5000" step="0">\n200\n </defNumber>\n <defNumber name="TELESCOPE_FOCAL_LENGTH" label="Focal Length (mm)" format="%g" min="10" max="10000" step="0">\n800\n </defNumber>\n <defNumber name="GUIDER_APERTURE" label="Guider Aperture (mm)" format="%g" min="10" max="5000" step="0">\n200\n </defNumber>\n <defNumber name="GUIDER_FOCAL_LENGTH" label="Guider Focal Length (mm)" format="%g" min="10" max="10000" step="0">\n800\n </defNumber>\n</defNumberVector>\n<defNumberVector device="Telescope Simulator" name="TELESCOPE_INFO" label="Scope Properties" group="Options" state="Ok" perm="rw" timeout="60" timestamp="2021-10-01T15:58:30">\n <defNumber name="TELESCOPE_APERTURE" label="Aperture (mm)" format="%g" min="10" max="5000" step="0">\n200\n </defNumber>\n <defNumber name="TELESCOPE_FOCAL_LENGTH" label="Focal Length (mm)" format="%g" min="10" max="10000" step="0">\n800\n </defNumber>\n <defNumber name="GUIDER_APERTURE" label="Guider Aperture (mm)" format="%g" min="10" max="5000" step="0">\n200\n </defNumber>\n <defNumber name="GUIDER_FOCAL_LENGTH" label="Guider Focal Length (mm)" format="%g" min="10" max="10000" step="0">\n800\n </defNumber>\n</defNumberVector>\n'

The symbol that seems to cause the parsing error is:

data.decode()[219]
Out[4]: '"'

Which was somewhere in the middle of a message:

data.decode()[200:240]
Out[6]: 'l="CCD Y Pixel Size" format="%4.2f" min='

Am I doing something wrong ?

Thank you in advance for your help