Encode Error if title is encoded as unicode string

[Boldie]

I have version 1.4.0 installed and I still have a similar bug when doing the following line (the string was loaded from another redmine installation via get before):

rmTo.wiki_page.create(text= 'h1. test', project_id= 'project', title=u'Kompatibilit\xe4t')

I got this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<console>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/redmine/managers.py", line 172, in create
    url = '{0}{1}'.format(self.redmine.url, formatter.format(self.resource_class.query_create, **fields))
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe4' in position 31: ordinal not in range(128)

After further investigations, I found a workaround to convert the title to utf-8 before passing it to create. I am not sure if this is a good way and maybe the conversion should be made dependent on the data coming in.

[maxtepkeev]

Thanks for the report. After some testing I can confirm that this is a bug in Python-Redmine. I know how to properly fix it once and for all, but this will require some internal library redesign and I don't have time to do this right now. Your workaround is perfectly fine, so please keep using it until this problem won't be fixed in Python-Redmine internally.

[Digenis]

I encountered the same problem while iterating wiki pages
with their names as returned by project.wiki_pages.
I fixed it as follows:

diff --git a/redmine/managers.py b/redmine/managers.py
index 81061ab..76e14ad 100644
--- a/redmine/managers.py
+++ b/redmine/managers.py
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ from distutils.version import LooseVersion

 from .resultsets import ResourceSet
 from .utilities import MemorizeFormatter
+from .utilities import to_string, is_string
 from .exceptions import (
     ResourceError,
     ResourceBadMethodError,
@@ -118,7 +119,9 @@ class ResourceManager(object):
         """Returns a Resource object directly by resource id (can be either integer id or string identifier)"""
         if self.resource_class.query_one is None or self.resource_class.container_one is None:
             raise ResourceBadMethodError

+        if is_string(resource_id):
+            resource_id = to_string(resource_id)
         try:
             self.url = '{0}{1}'.format(self.redmine.url, self.resource_class.query_one.format(resource_id, **params))
         except KeyError as exception:

I understand that you care about code quality want to avoid this kind of patching
but is there any chance to get some b u f i x i n g in the current, stable version?
A r e d e s i g n, even after being released, will remain some time in beta status.

[maxtepkeev]

All unicode issues should now be fixed in v1.5.1

@Digenis BTW, in your current case with wiki_pages you could use wiki_page.refresh() which returns new wiki_page object from Redmine with all possible information available. This is a convenient shortcut to redmine.wiki_page.get('Foo', project_id='bar'). refresh() is also available for all other resources as well.