Error message logged on encountering NAPALM permissions

[glennmatthews]

Environment

• Python version:
• Nautobot version: 1.0.0b3
• nautobot-netbox-importer version: 1.2.0

Expected Behavior

Successful import without error messages

Observed Behavior

15:00:22 error    Expected but did not find an existing Nautobot record
  source: user
  target: permission
  unique_id:
    {'codename': 'napalm_read', 'content_type': <ContentType: dcim | device>}
15:00:22 error    Expected but did not find an existing Nautobot record
  source: user
  target: permission
  unique_id:
    {'codename': 'napalm_write', 'content_type': <ContentType: dcim | device>}

(may be repeated multiple times)

Steps to Reproduce

1. Import a dump from NetBox that has these permission records defined.

[glennmatthews]

Nautobot doesn't actually use user.permission objects (it, like current versions of NetBox, uses a custom objectpermission model instead), so an appropriate fix here would likely be to ignore user.permission from the import altogether.

[hagaram]

Hello @glennmatthews,

is there a way how to import this kind of dump at the moment as I've encountered exactly the same issue?

I've naively tried to use --exclude auth.permission when exporting data from netbox, but of course it "exploded" when importing the data to nautobot.

Best regards,
Michal

[glennmatthews]

This issue should be cosmetic only - it shouldn't cause the import as a whole to fail. If your import is failing likely something else is going wrong... can you perhaps open a new issue with the complete (or minimally redacted) logs from your failed import?