[ckan-dev] problem with "&"

[David Read]

Hi Florian,

On 6 September 2011 11:49, Florian Marienfeld
<florian.marienfeld at fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am having trouble with the characters "=&;".
> if they occur e.g. in the title of a package, I get a 400-Bad-Request
> when I try to register a package by POSTing to ckan/rest/api/package
>
> However, when I PUT the same package as an edit to
> ckan/rest/api/package/existing_package, it works and the title shows
> correctly on the front end and API.
>
> Am I doing something wrong, or is this a bug?

Florian,
I've reproduced this and it shows the problem is with the JSON decoding:

(pyenv-ckan)dread at dread-laptop:~/hgroot/ckan$ curl -i
http://localhost:5000/api/rest/package -d '{"name": "test3", "title":
"Test &"}' -H "Authorization:tester"
HTTP/1.0 400 Bad Request
Server: PasteWSGIServer/0.5 Python/2.6.5
Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2011 14:09:31 GMT
Pragma: no-cache
Cache-Control: no-cache
Content-Type: application/json;charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 87

"Bad request - JSON Error: Unterminated string starting at: line 1
column 27 (char 27)"

It looks like a bug - many thanks for raising it. I've filled in this
ticket: http://trac.ckan.org/ticket/1312
I should be able to get a fix out today or tomorrow. Cheers,

David

>
> Thanks in advance, best regards,
>
> FLO
>
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