I think we need an explicit issue to understand the problem. Open an issue
so we can track it even if I do not think there is an issue.
On Monday, 4 May 2015 10:56:35 UTC-5, Louis Amon wrote:
>
> I've recently had a pretty annoying issue when using web2py with AngularJS
> :
>
> By default, AngularJS sends JSON-encoded requests when you use the $http
> service, so a POST request would look like this :
> "{"firstName":"John"}"
>
>
> For some reason I don't really understand, web2py natively understands
> this JSON request a populates request.vars accordingly.
>
> Why does web2py understand JSON requests ? Aren't POST requests (forms)
> supposed to be url-encoded ?
>
>
> The issue I ended up facing because of this is when AngularJS sends a
> request that contains accentuated characters, e.g. :
> "{"firstName":"Cédric"}"
>
> When the regular HTML form processing would require something like:
> "firstName=C%C3%A9dric"
>
>
>
> With the JSON request, web2py ends up populating request.vars like this :
> Storage(firstName=u'Cédric')
>
> And so I get tons of *UnicodeEncodeError* when using web2py widgets or
> the URL helper...
>
> For instance I have a URL(..., vars=request.vars) in a model and this
> raises an Exception (HTTP 500) every time the server receives a
> JSON-encoded request with accentuated characters.
>
>
> *Shouldn't web2py be able to either convert JSON-encoded unicode strings
> ot reject them altogether without raising an exception ?*
>
>
>
> ...for the record : my solution so far was to hack the $http service in
> AngularJS into sending url-encoded strings instead of JSON.
>
> I started this post solely because I think there is something wrong going
> on here with web2py and because many people post about UnicodeEncodeError
> in web2py
>
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