JSON data source doesn't support unicode text in the data field

[myonlylonely]

Issue Summary

JSON data source doesn't support unicode text in the data field. It returned 'Error running query: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 40-41: ordinal not in range(128)'.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Create a query from JSON data source with unicode text in the data field.

url: http://XXX.XXX/XXX
method: post
data: '测试'

2. Execute the query, and it returned

Error running query: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 40-41: ordinal not in range(128)

Technical details:

• Redash Version: 8.0 beta2
• Browser/OS: CentOS 7
• How did you install Redash: Docker

[deecay]

Hi,

May be you need to construct YAML in a different way?

[myonlylonely]

Hi,

May be you need to construct YAML in a different way?

The data must be a structured JSON string. But I wanted to post a non-JSON data string with unicode string.