Marketo connector error TypeError: '>' not supported between instances of 'str' and 'NoneType'

  • Is this your first time deploying Airbyte?: No
  • OS Version / Instance: docker on EC2
  • Memory / Disk: you can use something like 4Gb / 1 Tb
  • Deployment: Docker
  • Airbyte Version: v0.40.11
  • Source name/version: source-marketo
  • Destination name/version: destination-redshift
  • Step: The issue is happening during sync
  • Description: marketo sync fail with the following error :
destination > Starting a new buffer for stream marketo_leads (current state: 0 bytes in 1 buffers)
source > Encountered an exception while reading stream leads
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/airbyte_cdk/sources/abstract_source.py", line 113, in read
    yield from self._read_stream(
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/airbyte_cdk/sources/abstract_source.py", line 182, in _read_stream
    for record in record_iterator:
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/airbyte_cdk/sources/abstract_source.py", line 246, in _read_incremental
    stream_state = stream_instance.get_updated_state(stream_state, record_data)
  File "/airbyte/integration_code/source_marketo/source.py", line 99, in get_updated_state
    self.cursor_field: max(
TypeError: '>' not supported between instances of 'str' and 'NoneType'

This happen after an update of the Marketo connector, connection is only syncing leads, campaigns and programs from marketo.
At the end of the sync, only campaign has a connection state

27960fb9_f0c0_414c_bda4_792667d7d031_logs_1222_txt.txt (186.1 KB)

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Hey @CBarbault, sorry to hear youā€™re having this issue! Let me look into it, my guess is that something got updated in the new version and caused breaking changes with your data. As a first step, could you try making a new test connector and do a small trial sync?

Hey, when I run a small sync (just a few days) the sync succeed and the state is correctly saved.
But when I run a full sync of my data (2 years), my sync worker fail.

(The connector Iā€™m using is a new connector)

EDIT : I tried syncing 1 year and 1 month without success
EDIT 2: When running on my local machine (docker Airbyte v0.40.25) I got the following error message:

Additional Failure Information: message='java.lang.IllegalStateException: Job ran during migration from Legacy State to Per Stream State. 
One of the streams that did not have state is: io.airbyte.protocol.models.StreamDescriptor@13dbea3d[name=leads,namespace=<null>,additionalProperties={}]. 
Job must be retried in order to properly store state.', type='java.lang.RuntimeException', nonRetryable=false

Iā€™m still getting this error, do you have any idea what could be the cause @natalyjazzviolin ?

Hey Cyprien! I have completed a successful sync and was not able to replicate this issue. Are you using normalization?

Yes Iā€™m using " Normalized tabular data". The amount of data Iā€™m trying to sync is quite important (ex: 400000+ leads) so Iā€™m using the incremental dedup sync

Iā€™m thinking there must be something in your older data that is causing a type error - the connector is trying to compare a string and a null value and thatā€™s causing the exception. Do you see any airbyte_raw tables? Look for the leads one and look for a null value if you can! Then we can take it from there!

I do have those tables, but it appears that _airbyte_raw_marketo_programs is empty.

And does that data exist for you in Marketo?

We do have data in Marketo (e.g. more than 400k leads).

Iā€™ve tried running the connection in full refresh override but this time it failed with the error message Additional Failure Information: invalid literal for int() with base 10: 'Asia/Bangkok'

Ah! So looks like more type errors. I think there is something that needs to be corrected in the connector code, or something is being set incorrectly in Marketo. Could you tell me what field this ā€˜Asia/Bangkokā€™ datapoint comes from? You ran only the leads stream, right? We need to pinpoint where this is happening. Iā€™m looking through the leads stream and see a few integer fields.
https://github.com/airbytehq/airbyte/blob/master/airbyte-integrations/connectors/source-marketo/source_marketo/schemas/leads.json

Hello, I wish you a happy new year,

I was not able to find which field is causing the error, but here are the logs from a failing sync :
27960fb9_f0c0_414c_bda4_792667d7d031_logs_1334_txt.txt (46.3 KB)

To narrow the problem, this sync is only targeting the ā€œleadā€ stream since 2023-12-20.

Edit: Looking at our data, ā€œAsia/Bangkokā€ is refering to a persontimezone from Marketo

Hey again.

I tried pulling the Airbyte repository code to investigate the marketo connector and I found the following :

The lead who is breaking the pipeline has a name containing the following letters : į»… Đ į»© c (Vietnamese character I guess)
All its field are in the wrong order (ex: billingCity contains the email, id contains the timezoneā€¦)

I guess this has something to do with character encoding not being handle in the right way.

@natalyjazzviolin
I was able to fix the issue by using the unicodecsv library instead of the csvone and removing the decode_unicode=True.

Edit : I found an even simpler fix : seting response.encoding = 'utf-8'
In fact, response.encoding was set the default value of ISO-8859-1 as it wasnā€™t able to detect the utf-8 encoding

That is wonderful to hear, thank you so much for the update!

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Thanks for your assistance.

Link to the PR ā†’ šŸ› Source Marketo: fix encoding error for Lead sync by CyprienBarbault Ā· Pull Request #20973 Ā· airbytehq/airbyte Ā· GitHub

Hey @natalyjazzviolin Iā€™m still in need of a review on the PR, youā€™re in the last of reviewer could you take a look ? That would be super nice of you !