in the qooxdoo application, I define data as
data = {name: "Prüfung", textfield : "Etwas mit umlaut- üäüöö"}
and then send it through an asynchronous call (using
qx.io.remote.Rpc.callAsync)
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 19:42, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote:
> can you print data? What is in data?
>
> On Nov 9, 12:20 pm, Omri <omri...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I did some tryouts and it seems that the only problem is with the
> > update method, and then only when called through service.jsonrpc. I
> > created the following model:
> >
> > db.define_table("debug_stuff",
> > Field("name", length=100),
> > Field("textfield", "text"),
> > format="%(name)s")
> >
> > and defined the following function in the controller (default):
> >
> > @service.jsonrpc
> > def debug_umlauts(data):
> > # db["debug_stuff"].insert(**data) # <--- Worked, no problem
> > # db(db["debug_stuff"]["id"] == 2).update(**data) # <--- Didn't
> > work
> > db(db["debug_stuff"]["id"] == 2).update(name = data['name'],
> > textfield=data['textfield']) # <--- Worked
> > return "OK update"
> >
> > The only line that didn't work was the second one, where I tried to
> > use the **data for the update method. The problem is that I want the
> > method to be general, and therefore cannot use the method of the third
> > line to specify for .update what fields I'm updating.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Omri
> >
> > On Nov 8, 5:19 pm, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote:
> >
> > > Can you try put a u in front of the string u"..."
> >
> > > On Nov 8, 5:30 am, Omri <omri...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > > Hello,
> >
> > > > I'm having a unicode problem with the DAL.
> >
> > > > I'm developing a (mainly) RPC database application with qooxdoo as JS
> > > > framework and web2py as the webserver.
> >
> > > > I have created a fairly generic update_record function which simply
> > > > gets two input variables - a table name and a data dictionary with
> > > > name/value pairs which correspond to the fields of the table.
> > > > My function looks like this:
> >
> > > > def update_record(table_name, data):
> > > > db(db[table_name]['id'] == data['id']).update(**data)
> > > > return db(db[table_name]['id'] == data['id']).select()
> >
> > > > My application should work both in English and in German, and my
> > > > problem is that when I try to update a string value with an Umlaut
> > > > (example - "Überwlad") I get an error:
> > > > "UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in
> > > > position..."
> >
> > > > I am able to insert records to the database with Umlauts, but I use a
> > > > different method for the insert. I use the syntax of .insert(name =
> > > > value, name2 = value2,...).
> >
> > > > I tried to encode all the data keys which are unicode objects without
> > > > success, it keeps raising the same error.
> >
> > > > Am I missing something here, or is this a bug? And more
> interestingly,
> > > > how can it be solved?
> >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Omri
> >
> >
>
