im having the same issue

im having the same issue

Here's my quick&ugly workaround until the lib is fixed:

import json
import os
import requests


def list_secrets(folder):
    url = "{}/v1/secret/metadata/{}".format(os.environ['VAULT_ADDR'],requests.utils.quote(folder,safe=''))
    print(url)

    headers = {"X-Vault-Token" : os.environ['VAULT_TOKEN']}
    res = requests.get(url, params={"list":"true"} , headers=headers).content
    children = json.loads(res)["data"]["keys"]
    print(children)
    return children

Hi folks! We do have a method to force the use of GET requests for LIST operations.
To do so, you should create your own Adapter type. This could be as easy as subclassing the default JSONAdapter:

import hvac

class StrictAdapter(hvac.adapters.JSONAdapter):
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        kwargs["strict_http"] = True
        super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)

client = hvac.Client(adapter=StrictAdapter)

To follow the flow of how that's used:

In the file linked in the OP, we see it the method call adapter.list:

adapter.list calls adapter.request with the "list" method:

which in turn has code to check whether the method is list and if so, to change the request method to GET and add the list=true parameter, but only when strict_http is set to True (it defaults to False):

I think there's room for improvement here though.

An overload, or a new parameter is not quite what I'd recommend, because all list methods would need the same thing, not just kv2, and the issue of needing to use GET instead of LIST should be system wide (which is why it's in the adapter).

Instead I'd probably look to make one or more of the following changes:

• Allow the client to take a pre-created instance of an Adapter, and not just the class: it would be much easier to simply pass it in than to have to subclass it, hvac.Client(adapter=hvac.adapters.JSONAdapter(strict_http=True))
• Perhaps add a strict_http option to the Client constructor so it can be set there, to be passed into the Adapter, hvac.Client(strict_http=True)

I'll think about it a bit and open an issue, and probably a PR.