That doesn't look like correct Python syntax to me. Lambda expressions are
limited to a single expression (
http://docs.python.org/tutorial/controlflow.html). I am pretty sure that
just takes a callable, so you can do this:
def decodeIfNotNone(utf8_string):
if utf8_string:
return utf8_string.decode("utf-8")
else:
return ""
Then pass this callable as the second parameter to the method:
('brand', decodeIfNotNone, None),
Let me know if this works for you.
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 5:40 PM, Dominik Steiner <
dominik.j.stei...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Ikai again for the fast reply.
> (
> I tried the following
>
> ('brand', lambda x: x.decode('utf-8'), ""),
>
> so changing the default value from None to "" but that didn't help
>
> Then tried the following
>
> ('brand', if x is not None: lambda x: x.decode('utf-8'), ""),
>
> but this threw a syntax error.
>
> Is there anyway to check that the value is not null in order to decode it?
>
> Thanks
>
> Dominik
>
> It's basically the equivalent of a Null Pointer exception. This syntax:
>
> lambda x: x.someMethod()
>
> Is an inline anonymous function call. If x is None as opposed to blank
> String, you will not be able to call methods on it.
>
> On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Dominik Steiner <
> dominik.j.stei...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks Ikai for the fast response,
>>
>> yes, some unicode characters might be the issue here as my data is in
>> Spanish. I tried your suggestion and now have an exporter.py that looks like
>> this
>>
>> from google.appengine.ext import db
>>
>> class Product(db.Model):
>> userId = db.StringProperty()
>> name = db.StringProperty()
>> shop = db.StringProperty()
>> brand = db.StringProperty()
>> model = db.StringProperty()
>> contact = db.StringProperty()
>> imageId = db.StringProperty()
>> userNickName = db.StringProperty()
>> price = db.FloatProperty()
>> registeredDate = db.DateProperty()
>> validUntilDate = db.DateProperty()
>> ratingCount = db.IntegerProperty()
>> ratingTotal = db.IntegerProperty()
>> rating = db.IntegerProperty()
>> commentCount = db.IntegerProperty()
>> description = db.TextProperty()
>>
>> from google.appengine.ext import db
>> from google.appengine.tools import bulkloader
>>
>> class ProductExporter(bulkloader.Exporter):
>> def __init__(self):
>> bulkloader.Exporter.__init__(self, 'Product',
>> [('name', lambda x:
>> x.decode('utf-8'), None),
>> ('userId', str, None),
>> ('shop', lambda x:
>> x.decode('utf-8'), None).
>> ('brand', lambda x:
>> x.decode('utf-8'), None),
>> ('model', lambda x:
>> x.decode('utf-8'), None),
>> ('contact', lambda x:
>> x.decode('utf-8'), None),
>> ('imageId', str, None),
>> ('userNickName', lambda x:
>> x.decode('utf-8'), None),
>> ('price', str, None),
>> ('registeredDate', str, None),
>> ('validUntilDate', str, None),
>> ('ratingCount', str, None),
>> ('ratingTotal', str, None),
>> ('rating', str, None),
>> ('commentCount', str, None),
>> ('description', lambda x:
>> x.decode('utf-8'), None)
>> ])
>> exporters = [ProductExporter]
>>
>>
>> and I now get the following error (but at least it seems that it had been
>> downloading for a while before throwing that error)
>>
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>> File "/usr/local/bin/appcfg.py", line 60, in <module>
>> run_file(__file__, globals())
>> File "/usr/local/bin/appcfg.py", line 57, in run_file
>> execfile(script_path, globals_)
>> File
>> "/Applications/GoogleAppEngineLauncher.app/Contents/Resources/GoogleAppEngine-default.bundle/Contents/Resources/google_appengine/google/appengine/tools/appcfg.py",
>> line 2548, in <module>
>> main(sys.argv)
>> File
>> "/Applications/GoogleAppEngineLauncher.app/Contents/Resources/GoogleAppEngine-default.bundle/Contents/Resources/google_appengine/google/appengine/tools/appcfg.py",
>> line 2539, in main
>> result = AppCfgApp(argv).Run()
>> File
>> "/Applications/GoogleAppEngineLauncher.app/Contents/Resources/GoogleAppEngine-default.bundle/Contents/Resources/google_appengine/google/appengine/tools/appcfg.py",
>> line 1640, in Run
>> self.action(self)
>> File
>> "/Applications/GoogleAppEngineLauncher.app/Contents/Resources/GoogleAppEngine-default.bundle/Contents/Resources/google_appengine/google/appengine/tools/appcfg.py",
>> line 2427, in __call__
>> return method()
>> File
>> "/Applications/GoogleAppEngineLauncher.app/Contents/Resources/GoogleAppEngine-default.bundle/Contents/Resources/google_appengine/google/appengine/tools/appcfg.py",
>> line 2293, in PerformDownload
>> run_fn(args)
>> File
>> "/Applications/GoogleAppEngineLauncher.app/Contents/Resources/GoogleAppEngine-default.bundle/Contents/Resources/google_appengine/google/appengine/tools/appcfg.py",
>> line 2215, in RunBulkloader
>> sys.exit(bulkloader.Run(arg_dict))
>> File
>> "/Applications/GoogleAppEngineLauncher.app/Contents/Resources/GoogleAppEngine-default.bundle/Contents/Resources/google_appengine/google/appengine/tools/bulkloader.py",
>> line 3894, in Run
>> return _PerformBulkload(arg_dict)
>> File
>> "/Applications/GoogleAppEngineLauncher.app/Contents/Resources/GoogleAppEngine-default.bundle/Contents/Resources/google_appengine/google/appengine/tools/bulkloader.py",
>> line 3800, in _PerformBulkload
>> return_code = app.Run()
>> File
>> "/Applications/GoogleAppEngineLauncher.app/Contents/Resources/GoogleAppEngine-default.bundle/Contents/Resources/google_appengine/google/appengine/tools/bulkloader.py",
>> line 3158, in Run
>> self.progress_thread.WorkFinished()
>> File
>> "/Applications/GoogleAppEngineLauncher.app/Contents/Resources/GoogleAppEngine-default.bundle/Contents/Resources/google_appengine/google/appengine/tools/bulkloader.py",
>> line 2207, in WorkFinished
>> exporter.output_entities(self.result_db.AllEntities())
>> File
>> "/Applications/GoogleAppEngineLauncher.app/Contents/Resources/GoogleAppEngine-default.bundle/Contents/Resources/google_appengine/google/appengine/tools/bulkloader.py",
>> line 2788, in output_entities
>> for entity in entity_generator)
>> File
>> "/Applications/GoogleAppEngineLauncher.app/Contents/Resources/GoogleAppEngine-default.bundle/Contents/Resources/google_appengine/google/appengine/tools/bulkloader.py",
>> line 2788, in <genexpr>
>> for entity in entity_generator)
>> File
>> "/Applications/GoogleAppEngineLauncher.app/Contents/Resources/GoogleAppEngine-default.bundle/Contents/Resources/google_appengine/google/appengine/tools/bulkloader.py",
>> line 2769, in __SerializeEntity
>> encoding = self.__EncodeEntity(entity)
>> File
>> "/Applications/GoogleAppEngineLauncher.app/Contents/Resources/GoogleAppEngine-default.bundle/Contents/Resources/google_appengine/google/appengine/tools/bulkloader.py",
>> line 2757, in __EncodeEntity
>> writer.writerow(self.__ExtractProperties(entity))
>> File
>> "/Applications/GoogleAppEngineLauncher.app/Contents/Resources/GoogleAppEngine-default.bundle/Contents/Resources/google_appengine/google/appengine/tools/bulkloader.py",
>> line 2738, in __ExtractProperties
>> encoding.append(fn(entity[name]))
>> File "exporter.py", line 30, in <lambda>
>> ('brand', lambda x: x.decode('utf-8'), None),
>> AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'decode'
>>
>> Do you have any idea of what that could be?
>>
>> Thanks again for your help.
>>
>> Dominik
>>
>> Interesting. Do you have some unicode characters in any fields? There's a
>> snippet on the bulk loader page about how to handle these characters in your
>> Importer:
>>
>> http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/tools/uploadingdata.html
>>
>> import datetime
>> from google.appengine.ext import db
>> from google.appengine.tools import bulkloader
>> import models
>>
>> class AlbumLoader(bulkloader.Loader):
>> def __init__(self):
>> bulkloader.Loader.__init__(self, 'Album',
>> [('title', lambda x:
>> x.decode('utf-8')),
>> ('artist', lambda x:
>> x.decode('utf-8')),
>> ('publication_date',
>> lambda x:
>> datetime.datetime.strptime(x, '%m/%d/%Y').date()),
>> ('length_in_minutes', int)
>> ])
>>
>> loaders = [AlbumLoader]
>>
>> Your error may be caused by UTF-8/ASCII incompatibilities, and this is
>> where I would start looking.
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 8:26 PM, Dominik Steiner <
>> dominik.j.stei...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Ikai,
>>>
>>> I followed the instructions in the cook book for the python uploader/
>>> downloader in order to be able to download and backup the data of my
>>> java application.
>>>
>>> As already posted in the cook book article, I got the following
>>> situation:
>>>
>>> "I would love to be able to download data in order to backup the data
>>> of my application and I tried your steps. One thing that didn't work
>>> for me was the line
>>>
>>> appcfg.py --server=python.latest.appid.appspot.com download_data
>>> exporter --filename=data.csv --kind=Thing --config_file=exporter/
>>> thing_exporter.py
>>>
>>> but had to write
>>>
>>> appcfg.py --server=python.latest.xelavos.appspot.com download_data --
>>> filename=data.csv --kind=Thing --config_file=exporter/
>>> thing_exporter.py path/to/my/pythondirectory
>>>
>>> Then after being able to launch the exporter i got the following error
>>> after a while of downloading
>>>
>>> .[INFO ] Product: No descending index on __key__, performing serial
>>> download
>>> .........................................
>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>> File "/usr/local/bin/appcfg.py", line 60, in
>>> run_file(__file__, globals())
>>> File "/usr/local/bin/appcfg.py", line 57, in run_file
>>> execfile(script_path, globals_)
>>> File "/Applications/GoogleAppEngineLauncher.app/Contents/Resources/
>>> GoogleAppEngine-default.bundle/Contents/Resources/google_appengine/
>>> google/appengine/tools/appcfg.py", line 2548, in
>>> main(sys.argv)
>>> File "/Applications/GoogleAppEngineLauncher.app/Contents/Resources/
>>> GoogleAppEngine-default.bundle/Contents/Resources/google_appengine/
>>> google/appengine/tools/appcfg.py", line 2539, in main
>>> result = AppCfgApp(argv).Run()
>>> File "/Applications/GoogleAppEngineLauncher.app/Contents/Resources/
>>> GoogleAppEngine-default.bundle/Contents/Resources/google_appengine/
>>> google/appengine/tools/appcfg.py", line 1640, in Run
>>> self.action(self)
>>> File "/Applications/GoogleAppEngineLauncher.app/Contents/Resources/
>>> GoogleAppEngine-default.bundle/Contents/Resources/google_appengine/
>>> google/appengine/tools/appcfg.py", line 2427, in __call__
>>> return method()
>>> File "/Applications/GoogleAppEngineLauncher.app/Contents/Resources/
>>> GoogleAppEngine-default.bundle/Contents/Resources/google_appengine/
>>> google/appengine/tools/appcfg.py", line 2293, in PerformDownload
>>> run_fn(args)
>>> File "/Applications/GoogleAppEngineLauncher.app/Contents/Resources/
>>> GoogleAppEngine-default.bundle/Contents/Resources/google_appengine/
>>> google/appengine/tools/appcfg.py", line 2215, in RunBulkloader
>>> sys.exit(bulkloader.Run(arg_dict))
>>> File "/Applications/GoogleAppEngineLauncher.app/Contents/Resources/
>>> GoogleAppEngine-default.bundle/Contents/Resources/google_appengine/
>>> google/appengine/tools/bulkloader.py", line 3894, in Run
>>> return _PerformBulkload(arg_dict)
>>> File "/Applications/GoogleAppEngineLauncher.app/Contents/Resources/
>>> GoogleAppEngine-default.bundle/Contents/Resources/google_appengine/
>>> google/appengine/tools/bulkloader.py", line 3800, in _PerformBulkload
>>> return_code = app.Run()
>>> File "/Applications/GoogleAppEngineLauncher.app/Contents/Resources/
>>> GoogleAppEngine-default.bundle/Contents/Resources/google_appengine/
>>> google/appengine/tools/bulkloader.py", line 3158, in Run
>>> self.progress_thread.WorkFinished()
>>> File "/Applications/GoogleAppEngineLauncher.app/Contents/Resources/
>>> GoogleAppEngine-default.bundle/Contents/Resources/google_appengine/
>>> google/appengine/tools/bulkloader.py", line 2207, in WorkFinished
>>> exporter.output_entities(self.result_db.AllEntities())
>>> File "/Applications/GoogleAppEngineLauncher.app/Contents/Resources/
>>> GoogleAppEngine-default.bundle/Contents/Resources/google_appengine/
>>> google/appengine/tools/bulkloader.py", line 2788, in output_entities
>>> for entity in entity_generator)
>>> File "/Applications/GoogleAppEngineLauncher.app/Contents/Resources/
>>> GoogleAppEngine-default.bundle/Contents/Resources/google_appengine/
>>> google/appengine/tools/bulkloader.py", line 2788, in
>>> for entity in entity_generator)
>>> File "/Applications/GoogleAppEngineLauncher.app/Contents/Resources/
>>> GoogleAppEngine-default.bundle/Contents/Resources/google_appengine/
>>> google/appengine/tools/bulkloader.py", line 2769, in __SerializeEntity
>>> encoding = self.__EncodeEntity(entity)
>>> File "/Applications/GoogleAppEngineLauncher.app/Contents/Resources/
>>> GoogleAppEngine-default.bundle/Contents/Resources/google_appengine/
>>> google/appengine/tools/bulkloader.py", line 2757, in __EncodeEntity
>>> writer.writerow(self.__ExtractProperties(entity))
>>> File "/Applications/GoogleAppEngineLauncher.app/Contents/Resources/
>>> GoogleAppEngine-default.bundle/Contents/Resources/google_appengine/
>>> google/appengine/tools/bulkloader.py", line 2738, in
>>> __ExtractProperties
>>> encoding.append(fn(entity[name]))
>>> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe1' in
>>> position 7: ordinal not in range(128)
>>> "
>>>
>>> Do you know what this error means and how i can fix it?
>>>
>>> Thanks for any help
>>>
>>> Dominik
>>>
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