Tcllib's rest package bug...

[Georgios Petasis]

Hi all,

I tried to use the rest package from tcllib, and I think it has a bug
(it cannot handle encodings, I haven't found a way to pass utf-8 json
correctly).

But I am not sure where I can submit a bug.

(Not important, "http::geturl $url -query $json \
-method PUT -binary 1 \
-type application/json\;charset=utf-8"
solved my problem)

George

[Georgios Petasis]

Hm, this needs more research. The above call has not solved my problem...

George

[Georgios Petasis]

However, this works:

http::geturl $url \
-query [encoding convertto identity $json] \

-method PUT -binary 1 \
-type "application/json;charset=utf-8"

It seems that the key is "encoding convertto identity". I am not sure
why it is needed...
And I suspect the solution to tcllib's rest package is the same...

George

[Alexandre Ferrieux]

Identity is an internal wart, to be avoided as much as possible.
Can you give details on how you set $json ?

If it were a full-fledged Tcl string, [encoding convertto utf-8] would be the way to go.
If it were a byte array extracted by [read] from a binary-configured channel which happens to carry UTF-8-encoded characters, no conversion at all would be needed (since the socket in [http::geturl] is also binary-configured at the time it carries the body).

Maybe you're in a third case ?

-Alex

[Georgios Petasis]

Dear Alex,

I think I am in the first case, it was created from tcllib's huddle
package. I didn't thought about "convertto utf-8" at all. I thought it
was already utf-8 :-)

Regards,

George

[Andreas Kupries]

Georgios Petasis <pet...@iit.demokritos.gr> writes:

> On 7/8/2015 13:36, Alexandre Ferrieux wrote:
>> On Friday, August 7, 2015 at 11:41:11 AM UTC+2, Georgios Petasis wrote:
>>> On 7/8/2015 12:11, Georgios Petasis wrote:
>>>> On 7/8/2015 11:14, Georgios Petasis wrote:
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>
>>>>> I tried to use the rest package from tcllib, and I think it has a bug
>>>>> (it cannot handle encodings, I haven't found a way to pass utf-8 json
>>>>> correctly).
>>>>>
>>>>> But I am not sure where I can submit a bug.

As a Tcllib package you can submit bugs with Tcllib, at

http://core.tcl.tk/tcllib/

also, if you are using teacup. look at the output of

teacup describe --all rest

Or filter down to the relevant piece with

teacup describe --all rest|grep -i origin

I tried very hard to associate each package in the TEApot with a
suitable origin location.


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