[ovirt-users] Python-SDK4: Managing accents?

12 Jun 2017

      Hi,

We're running Python SDK (ovirt-engine-sdk-python) ver 4.1.4 and we're 
having some issues getting values that contain accents. For example, 
this snippet fails:

     import ovirtsdk4 as sdk
     import ovirtsdk4.types as types

     # Create the connection to the server:
     connection = sdk.Connection(
         url='https://fqdn/ovirt-engine/api',
         username='...',
         password='...',
         ca_file='...',
         debug=True,
     )

     users_service = connection.system_service().users_service()
     users = users_service.list()

     connection.close()

This snippet fails in the "users = users_service.list()" line, because 
one of the records have a tilde (ó).

The trace is:
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "lista_users", line 23, in <module>
     users = users_service.list()
   File 
"/home/ovirt/prueba/ejemplo2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ovirtsdk4/services.py", 
line 22155, in list
     return self._internal_get(headers, query, wait)
   File 
"/home/ovirt/prueba/ejemplo2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ovirtsdk4/service.py", 
line 202, in _internal_get
     return future.wait() if wait else future
   File 
"/home/ovirt/prueba/ejemplo2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ovirtsdk4/service.py", 
line 53, in wait
     return self._code(response)
   File 
"/home/ovirt/prueba/ejemplo2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ovirtsdk4/service.py", 
line 197, in callback
     return self._internal_read_body(response)
   File 
"/home/ovirt/prueba/ejemplo2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ovirtsdk4/service.py", 
line 310, in _internal_read_body
     return reader.Reader.read(response.body)
   File 
"/home/ovirt/prueba/ejemplo2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ovirtsdk4/reader.py", 
line 297, in read
     cursor = xml.XmlReader(io.BytesIO(source.encode('utf-8')))
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 
1899: ordinal not in range(128)

Opening the source code (ovirtsdk4/reader.py) file and seeking the exact 
line that fails I can see:

         if isinstance(source, str):
             cursor = xml.XmlReader(io.BytesIO(source.encode('utf-8')))

If I add a line just after the 'if' being "cursor = 
cursor.decode('utf-8')", it seems to work, but I guess the source code 
should handle this kind of situations.

Is this a known issue? Should I open a BZ? Any workaround meanwhile?

Thanks.

[ovirt-users] Python-SDK4: Managing accents?

nicolas＠devels.es