Question 1: Are Unicode Tags Officially supported?
It looks like it, because I have a user who is tagging media with Korean ( ?? ) and it’s displaying just fine in the KMC.
However, when doing my “Get Related Videos” search - which uses tags, the API blows up with an ASCII encoding error:
Module KalturaClient.Plugins.Core, line 13375, in toParams
Module KalturaClient.Base, line 123, in addStringIfDefined
Module KalturaClient.Base, line 87, in put
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 0-1: ordinal not in range(128)
The problem is pretty obvious when you see the code: KalturaClient.Base.KalturaParams in the put() method:
Provide the value u’??’
self.params[key] = str(value)
And you will blow up.
Before I dig deeper and submit a fix on github, I want to know if anyone else has run into this?
Cool. I’m going to wrap up the ‘low hanging fruit’ on my current project still. This is an ‘annoyance’ right now, not a full blown showstopper for me.
I’ll swing back around here with a test case, fix, and pull request probably early next week. Unless someone else wants to jump on it and save me the work
The test is to use the Python API and:
create a media type (video), and add a tag to it with unicode (you can use the value " ?? " for your tag)
Then, search for that video using the same tag
Step 1 might break also - I don’t know yet. The videos in question were created on the KMC, not via the API.
My problem is specifically getting a video, retrieving it’s tags (which are of type unicode), then using those tags to search for “related” videos. it’s the search that breaks.
Cool. I’m going to wrap up the ‘low hanging fruit’ on my current project still. This is an ‘annoyance’ right now, not a full blown showstopper for me.
I’ll swing back around here with a test case, fix, and pull request probably early next week. Unless someone else wants to jump on it and save me the work
The test is to use the Python API and:
create a media type (video), and add a tag to it with unicode (you can use the value " ?? " for your tag)
Then, search for that video using the same tag
Step 1 might break also - I don’t know yet. The videos in question were created on the KMC, not via the API.
My problem is specifically getting a video, retrieving it’s tags (which are of type unicode), then using those tags to search for “related” videos. it’s the search that breaks.
