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

[Juan Hernández]

On 06/13/2017 01:58 PM, nicolas at devels.es wrote:
> Currently all our scripts are python2-based, not sure if running them
> with Python3 would need a major change, but currently we're happy with
> Python2. I'm still not clear if this is a bug or an additional option
> should be supplied in order to make this work.
> 
> Thanks.
> 

It is a but. I think it was introduced recently. Please try to use
version 4.1.3 and check if it works correctly. Open a bug reporting the
results. We will probably need to do something like this to fix it:

  Fix parsing of multi-byte UTF-8 characters
  https://gerrit.ovirt.org/78112

> El 2017-06-12 14:48, Fabrice Bacchella escribió:
>> Did you try with python 3 ? UTF management changed a lot with this
>> version, it might works better in your case.
>>
>>> Le 12 juin 2017 à 12:33, nicolas at devels.es a écrit :
>>>
>>> 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.
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