UnicodeEncodeError using TJSONProtocol with unicode string (python2.7)

[gustavofonseca]

Hi all! This is the traceback:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "foo.py", line 14, in <module>
    foo.write(proto.TJSONProtocol(buff))
  File "/Users/gustavofonseca/prj/envs/thrift/lib/python2.7/site-packages/thriftpy/thrift.py", line 93, in write
    oprot.write_struct(self)
  File "/Users/gustavofonseca/prj/envs/thrift/lib/python2.7/site-packages/thriftpy/protocol/json.py", line 206, in write_struct
    "payload": struct_to_json(obj)
  File "/Users/gustavofonseca/prj/envs/thrift/lib/python2.7/site-packages/thriftpy/protocol/json.py", line 129, in struct_to_json
    outobj[field_name] = json_value(field_type, v, field_type_spec)
  File "/Users/gustavofonseca/prj/envs/thrift/lib/python2.7/site-packages/thriftpy/protocol/json.py", line 23, in json_value
    return str(val)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe3' in position 1: ordinal not in range(128)

foo.thrift:

struct Foo {
    1: optional string name;
}

foo.py:

# coding: utf-8
import io

import thriftpy
import thriftpy.protocol.json as proto

thrift_spec = thriftpy.load('foo.thrift', module_name='foo_thrift')

foo = thrift_spec.Foo(name=u'pão de açúcar')
#print proto.struct_to_json(foo) 


buff = io.BytesIO()
foo.write(proto.TJSONProtocol(buff))

print buff.getvalue()

[lxyu]

should be fixed in #65