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"OverflowError: string longer than 2147483647 bytes" when upload file > 2GB to generic package #2002
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Description
Description of the problem, including code/CLI snippet
I used project.generic_packages.upload api and got this issue when upload file > 2GB
project = gl.projects.get(1, lazy=True)
package = project.generic_packages.upload(
package_name="hello-world",
package_version="v1.0.0",
file_name="hello.tar.gz",
path="/path/to/local/hello.tar.gz"
)
Expected Behavior
Actual Behavior
Specifications
- python-gitlab version: 2.10.1
- API version you are using (v3/v4): v4
- Gitlab server version (or gitlab.com): gitlab.com
Activity
nejch commentedon May 2, 2022
Thanks for the report @thcao-ampere.
Looks like a repeat of #646, which was fixed by multipart uploads (#1252).
We probably forgot to do it for https://github.com/python-gitlab/python-gitlab/blob/main/gitlab/v4/objects/packages.py#L44.
thcao-ampere commentedon May 2, 2022
Please help fix in 2.10.1 too.. because I'm using python 3.6 on CentOS 7.9
Thanks!
nejch commentedon May 2, 2022
@thcao-ampere we generally don't backport fixes as it'd be too difficult to maintain a compatibility matrix with older GitLab versions. Python 3.6 is already EOL, so I suggest after this is fixed you use something like https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv to manage multiple python environments without affecting your system python.
But you can probably patch your old library based on our fix here if that's not possible, as a last resort.
thcao-ampere commentedon Jul 18, 2022
Was this issue fixed ?
nejch commentedon Jul 22, 2022
Not yet @thcao-ampere - but the backstage work is finished (#2011) so I think I can start looking at this fix now.
mattysan commentedon Apr 26, 2024
Just started using python-gitlab and ran into this issue; really would be helpful if we had a fix.
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github-actions commentedon Jul 24, 2025
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