podman-compose port does not work with dynamic host port

[charliemirabile]

If a container does not have a specific host port mapping for its internal port it will be given a dynamic port on the host when it is started (this is useful if you want to have more than one instance of the container on the same host without conflicts).

This is the primary use case for the podman port command—precisely to query podman to figure out what random port your service received. While podman-compose does offer a similar command podman-compose port for this situation, it seems to only work on port mappings with a specific host port.

Describe the bug If podman-compose port is run to query a port for a container that does not have a specific host mapping, podman-compose crashes with a value error because it tries to unpack the result of splitting a string expecting to find at least two pieces.

To Reproduce Create a compose file with a service that has an internal port it listens on and add a port mapping that mentions the number of the internal port but does not specify a host port to map it to. Run podman-compose port with the name of the service and the number of the internal port.

Expected behavior The mapping that podman chose for the internal port on the host is printed

Actual behavior Python stack trace and crash output due to unhandled value error exception

Output

example compose file

services:
  example:
    image: busybox
    command: httpd -f -p 80 -h /tmp
    ports:
      - "80"

commands that demonstrate the issue

$ podman-compose up -d
2522d6eeed43ad011db9300d901101f53fe6cf30c3b7c97073ce7b90f32974be
Resolved "busybox" as an alias (/etc/containers/registries.conf.d/000-shortnames.conf)
Trying to pull docker.io/library/busybox:latest...
Getting image source signatures
Copying blob 3d1a87f2317d done   | 
Copying config 87ff76f62d done   | 
Writing manifest to image destination
cd58e63445c33df91487869478f7d2b352603ff3e665873dcceb44489d1b982c
foo_example_1
$ podman-compose port example 80
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "podman_compose.py", line 3530, in <module>
    main()
  File "podman_compose.py", line 3526, in main
    asyncio.run(async_main())
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.12/asyncio/runners.py", line 194, in run
    return runner.run(main)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.12/asyncio/runners.py", line 118, in run
    return self._loop.run_until_complete(task)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.12/asyncio/base_events.py", line 685, in run_until_complete
    return future.result()
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "podman_compose.py", line 3522, in async_main
    await podman_compose.run()
  File "podman_compose.py", line 1755, in run
    retcode = await cmd(self, args)
              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "podman_compose.py", line 2921, in compose_port
    published, target = _published_target(p)
                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "podman_compose.py", line 2910, in _published_target
    published, target = port_string.split(":")[-2:]
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
ValueError: not enough values to unpack (expected 2, got 1)

$ podman port foo_example_1 80
0.0.0.0:33737

Environment:

• OS: Linux (Fedora 39)
• podman version: 4.9.3
• podman compose version:

$ git describe HEAD
v1.2.0-72-g229650c
$ git show --oneline
229650c (HEAD -> main, upstream/main) Merge pull request #1032 from shuckc/main