771586 - Previewing a translation results in error page

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(developer.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Wiki pages, defect, P1)

Description

[Jean-Bernard Marcon]

Steps to reproduce
1. Go to this page https://developer-new.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/CSS/CSS_transitions$translate?tolocale=fr
2. After some translated strings, clik on "preview changes" blue button
3. instead of having a preview you get https://developer-new.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/preview-wiki-content with this friendly message :
Internal Server Error

An unhandled error occurred in the application. The error has been logged and an administrator was notified. We apologize for the inconvenience!

Please start over on the home page.

If you have additional information how to reproduce this problem, please file a bug. Thanks!

Comment 1

[John Karahalis [:openjck]]

Thanks for the report, Jean-Bernard.

I can't reproduce the issue here, but that doesn't necessarily mean it works. Raymond, could you take a look at this?

Comment 2

[raymond [:retornam] (inactive)]

(In reply to John Karahalis [:openjck] from comment #1)
> Thanks for the report, Jean-Bernard.
> 
> I can't reproduce the issue here, but that doesn't necessarily mean it
> works. Raymond, could you take a look at this?

Tried a couple of times but wasn't able to reproduce

Comment 3

[raymond [:retornam] (inactive)]

The traceback for his error is



Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/data/www/developer.mozilla.org/kuma/vendor/src/django/django/core/handlers/base.py", line 100, in get_response
    response = callback(request, *callback_args, **callback_kwargs)

  File "/data/www/developer.mozilla.org/kuma/vendor/src/django-waffle/waffle/decorators.py", line 20, in _wrapped_view
    return view(request, *args, **kwargs)

  File "/data/www/developer.mozilla.org/kuma/apps/access/decorators.py", line 46, in _wrapped_view
    return view_fn(request, *args, **kwargs)

  File "/data/www/developer.mozilla.org/kuma/vendor/src/django/django/views/decorators/http.py", line 37, in inner
    return func(request, *args, **kwargs)

  File "/data/www/developer.mozilla.org/kuma/apps/wiki/views.py", line 835, in preview_revision
    wiki_content)

  File "/data/www/developer.mozilla.org/kuma/apps/wiki/kumascript.py", line 53, in post
    data=content, headers=headers)

  File "/data/www/developer.mozilla.org/kuma/vendor/src/requests/requests/api.py", line 135, in post
    return request('POST', url, data=data, **kwargs)

  File "/data/www/developer.mozilla.org/kuma/vendor/src/requests/requests/api.py", line 72, in request
    r.send()

  File "/data/www/developer.mozilla.org/kuma/vendor/src/requests/requests/models.py", line 339, in send
    resp = opener(req, timeout=self.timeout)

  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/urllib2.py", line 391, in open
    response = self._open(req, data)

  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/urllib2.py", line 409, in _open
    '_open', req)

  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/urllib2.py", line 369, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)

  File "/data/www/developer.mozilla.org/kuma/vendor/src/requests/requests/packages/poster/streaminghttp.py", line 142, in http_open
    return self.do_open(StreamingHTTPConnection, req)

  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/urllib2.py", line 1162, in do_open
    h.request(req.get_method(), req.get_selector(), req.data, headers)

  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/httplib.py", line 914, in request
    self._send_request(method, url, body, headers)

  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/httplib.py", line 954, in _send_request
    self.send(body)

  File "/data/www/developer.mozilla.org/kuma/vendor/src/requests/requests/packages/poster/streaminghttp.py", line 81, in send
    self.sock.sendall(value)

  File "<string>", line 1, in sendall

UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position 70: ordinal not in range(128)

Comment 4

[[github robot]]

Commits pushed to master at https://github.com/mozilla/kuma

https://github.com/mozilla/kuma/commit/8fcbe3f1025189b01eee89835a4cf721c84a0f44
fix bug 771586 - utf8 encode content posted to kumascript

https://github.com/mozilla/kuma/commit/83c3c6d34dbe097efd6afd7a591b0dffb61343b8
Merge pull request #389 from groovecoder/translation-preview-771586

fix bug 771586 - utf8 encode content posted to kumascript