httparty fails to parse certain json data

[jtoy]

url="http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/dutchlove1976?alt=json"
JSON.parse(open(url){|r| p r.read }) #no problem
r = HTTParty.send(:get,url ) =>
Encoding::CompatibilityError: incompatible character encodings: ASCII-8BIT and UTF-8
from /Users/jtoy/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0/gems/crack-0.1.8/lib/crack/json.rb:19:in gsub' from /Users/jtoy/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0/gems/crack-0.1.8/lib/crack/json.rb:19:inunescape'
from /Users/jtoy/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0/gems/crack-0.1.8/lib/crack/json.rb:12:in parse' from /Users/jtoy/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0/gems/httparty-0.7.4/lib/httparty/parser.rb:116:injson'
from /Users/jtoy/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0/gems/httparty-0.7.4/lib/httparty/parser.rb:136:in parse_supported_format' from /Users/jtoy/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0/gems/httparty-0.7.4/lib/httparty/parser.rb:103:inparse'
from /Users/jtoy/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0/gems/httparty-0.7.4/lib/httparty/parser.rb:66:in call' from /Users/jtoy/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0/gems/httparty-0.7.4/lib/httparty/request.rb:217:inparse_response'
from /Users/jtoy/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0/gems/httparty-0.7.4/lib/httparty/request.rb:189:in handle_response' from /Users/jtoy/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0/gems/httparty-0.7.4/lib/httparty/request.rb:71:inperform'
from /Users/jtoy/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0/gems/httparty-0.7.4/lib/httparty.rb:394:in perform_request' from /Users/jtoy/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0/gems/httparty-0.7.4/lib/httparty.rb:346:inget'
from /Users/jtoy/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0/gems/httparty-0.7.4/lib/httparty.rb:426:in `get'

[Dagnan]

Hi. Does anyone have a way to handle this? I have the same problem.

[Dagnan]

For a reason I do not know, httparty uses Crack::JSON, but JSON with JSON.parse works fine. I going to monkey patch this on my version. I anyone has a clue please comment :)

def json Crack::JSON.parse(body) end

[erikostling]

I'm also having a problem with Crack (huhu) and Ruby 1.9.2…

 Failure/Error: Unable to find matching line from backtrace
 SystemStackError:
   stack level too deep
 # /Users/erikostling/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180/gems/crack-0.1.8/lib/crack/json.rb:54

Seems not be the same as yours however.

[Dagnan]

Indeed.

[tfwright]

I'm also having this problem. Confim using JSON lib solves.

[metamn]

The same here on larger data sets:

/home/cs/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-head/gems/crack-0.1.8/lib/crack/json.rb:54: stack level too deep (SystemStackError)

[metamn]

Note: the same JSON data it is received without problems by rest-client or curl

[ericgj]

I was having some JSON issues with Crack too (different ones). I do wish Crack wasn't the default, it seems really out of date now. But note you don't actually have to monkeypatch to get around it, HTTParty lets you specify the parser like

# using native json parser instead of Crack
class JsonParser < HTTParty::Parser
  def json
    ::JSON.parse(body)
  end
end

class MyClient
  include HTTParty
  parser JsonParser
  # ...
end

[froots]

See this pull request as well: #89

Until that's incorporated, monkey patching with the following works well for me:

module HTTParty
  class Parser
    def json
      MultiJson.decode(body)
    end
  end
end

And in your Gemfile:

gem 'multi_json'

[jnunemaker]

This should be fixed as multi json is the default. Just use it with a good json gem and you are fine.