[OWSLib-users] OWSLib UnicodeEncodeError with accents

[Tom Kralidis]

Hi Sophie: can you post a test case/XML metadata so I can try to reproduce?

On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 10:39 AM, Sophie Mollard
<sophie.mollard at mshe.univ-fcomte.fr> wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I'm using owslib to insert metadata files into GeoNetwork with a python 2.7
> script. It works fine except with metadatas which contain accents.
>
>  csw.transaction(ttype='insert', typename='gmd:MD_Metadata',
> record=open('Haies_Franche_Comte_metadata.xml').read())
>
> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/owslib/csw.py", line 432, in
> transaction
>     self._invoke()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/owslib/csw.py", line 635, in
> _invoke
>     self.response = util.http_post(xml_post_url, self.request, self.lang,
> self.timeout, self.username, self.password)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/owslib/util.py", line 372, in
> http_post
>     up = urllib2.urlopen(r,timeout=timeout);
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 154, in urlopen
>     return opener.open(url, data, timeout)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 431, in open
>     response = self._open(req, data)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 449, in _open
>     '_open', req)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 409, in _call_chain
>     result = func(*args)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1227, in http_open
>     return self.do_open(httplib.HTTPConnection, req)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1194, in do_open
>     h.request(req.get_method(), req.get_selector(), req.data, headers)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 1001, in request
>     self._send_request(method, url, body, headers)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 1035, in _send_request
>     self.endheaders(body)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 997, in endheaders
>     self._send_output(message_body)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 854, in _send_output
>     self.send(message_body)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 826, in send
>     self.sock.sendall(data)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/socket.py", line 224, in meth
>     return getattr(self._sock,name)(*args)
> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position
> 1952: ordinal not in range(128)
>
> I've written at the beginning of the script :
>
> !/usr/bin/python
> # -*-coding:Utf-8 -*
>
> My metadata file is in utf-8 too :
>
> georchestra-ouvert at georchestra-dev:~/bin/lib$ file -i
> Haies_Franche_Comte_metadata.xml
> Haies_Franche_Comte_metadata.xml: text/plain; charset=utf-8
>
> However, my python environement is :
>
> print sys.getdefaultencoding()
> ascii
>
> I've tried to change it in utf-8 but then, I've obtained this error with
> owslib :
>
>     csw.transaction(ttype='insert', typename='gmd:MD_Metadata',
> record=open('Haies_Franche_Comte_metadata.xml').read())
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/owslib/csw.py", line 432, in
> transaction
>     self._invoke()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/owslib/csw.py", line 635, in
> _invoke
>     self.response = util.http_post(xml_post_url, self.request, self.lang,
> self.timeout, self.username, self.password)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/owslib/util.py", line 372, in
> http_post
>     up = urllib2.urlopen(r,timeout=timeout);
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 154, in urlopen
>     return opener.open(url, data, timeout)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 437, in open
>     response = meth(req, response)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 550, in http_response
>     'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 475, in error
>     return self._call_chain(*args)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 409, in _call_chain
>     result = func(*args)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 558, in http_error_default
>     raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp)
> urllib2.HTTPError: HTTP Error 500: Erreur Interne de Servlet
>
> What am I doing wrong ? Have you any idea ?
>
> Thank you in advance,
>
> --
> Sophie MOLLARD
>
> Pôle Géomatique
> MSHE C. N. Ledoux (USR 3124)
> Université de Franche-Comté
>  Tél : 03.81.66.51.55
>
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