Summary

Patch for issue 3895: UnicodeDecodeError

Review Request #7442 — Created June 22, 2015 and discarded Oct. 20, 2015, 10:13 p.m.

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kamali.ali

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RBTools

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3895

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Description

Fix issue 3895, set encoding to prevent potential UnicodeDecodeErrors

Testing Done

After this patch I was able to successfully post a review that contains unicode symbol when having empty files in the patch. I haven't run the test suite (sorry don't have the time to set everything up).

Issues

Description	From	Last Updated
You can just remove results_unicode=False and it will have the same effect as decoding.	brennie	June 22, 2015, 6:28 p.m.
Col: 80 E501 line too long (95 > 79 characters)	reviewbot	June 22, 2015, 7:22 p.m.
results_unicode defaults to True.	brennie	June 22, 2015, 8:15 p.m.
This isn't a correct fix (it will regress posting changes with non-utf8 files).	david	June 22, 2015, 8:42 p.m.
Instead, we should change it so that what we're appending here are bytestrings rather than unicode objects.	david	June 22, 2015, 8:42 p.m.
And here.	david	June 22, 2015, 8:42 p.m.

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brennie June 22, 2015, 7:17 p.m.

After you've fixed errors, please marked them as such. Our infrastructure doesn't allow patches to be landed with open issues.

Can you add the bug # to the bug field and fill in the testing done? (e.g., did you run the unit test suite?)

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You can just remove results_unicode=False and it will have the same effect as decoding.

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Fix it!

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results_unicode defaults to True.
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Fix it!

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This isn't a correct fix (it will regress posting changes with non-utf8 files).

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Instead, we should change it so that what we're appending here are bytestrings rather than unicode objects.

brennie June 22, 2015, 9:26 p.m.

It should be noted that mercurial.py doesnt use unicode_literals yet.

david June 22, 2015, 9:26 p.m.
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Oh shucks. We should do that.
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And here.

kamali.ali June 22, 2015, 9:22 p.m.

From my understanding in order to convert the unicode string into a byte array you need to pass in an encoding: unicode_string.decode(encoding). I'm afraid I'm not a Python expert, not sure how to do this properly without breaking non-utf8 files.

david June 22, 2015, 9:25 p.m.

At a basic level, we can just prefix each of these strings with a b (i.e. b'diff -r %s -r %s %s\n'). We also need to make sure that the things that get formatted into the string (base, tip, filename, etc.) are all bytestrings too.

kamali.ali June 22, 2015, 9:46 p.m.

It seems that doesn't work. In this case the problem is the diff variable is a unicode string, where as 'diff -r ...' is not. Adding the b prefix would cause the non-unicode string to be converted to a byte array, and then the byte array is being added to a unicode string which ends up causing the same UnicodeDecodeError. diff needs to be converted to a byte array so that it can be manipulated, and then back to a unicode string before the end of _handle_empty_files.

I tried the following as well as b'diff -r ...':
diff += (u'diff -r %s -r %s %s\n'
u'--- %s\t%s\n'
u'+++ b/%s\t%s\n'
% (base, tip, filename,
self.PRE_CREATION, self.PRE_CREATION_DATE,
filename, tip_date))

In both cases I still get a UnicodeDecodeError.

david June 22, 2015, 9:50 p.m.

Ali,

After looking at the code, I think there's probably a fair amount of refactoring that will have to happen here, so I'm going to take over the fix for this. Thanks for raising the issue!

KA

kamali.ali June 22, 2015, 9:56 p.m.
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Thanks David!
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Status:: Discarded