608585 - BzAPI utf8_encodes json twice

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Webtools Graveyard :: BzAPI, defect)

Description

[Arpad Borsos [:Swatinem]]

When a bug summary includes some utf8 characters (like https://landfill.bugzilla.org/bzapi_sandbox/show_bug.cgi?id=9945 does), the resulting json does not include the characters like it should, it rather utf8_encodes them twice.

Run the following script in a jQuery enabled firebug console (on tbpl.mozilla.org for example): $.getJSON("https://api-dev.bugzilla.mozilla.org/test/latest/bug?whiteboard=orange&summary=test_service_wipeServer.js", function(json) { console.log(json); });
The resulting json will not include the bug summary as utf8 like it should, it rather includes each of the utf8 bytes separately.

Opening the url ( https://api-dev.bugzilla.mozilla.org/test/latest/bug?whiteboard=orange&summary=test_service_wipeServer.js ) in the browser (Accept: sniffing) reveals that the html is also encoding the chars as byte sequences \x.. instead of utf8 characters.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Thank you for your helpful report :-)

This problem only occurred on bug lists, and was because we weren't correctly reading the CSV Bugzilla returns as UTF8. It's a one line fix, which is now in the repo and will be in the next release.

Gerv