UTF8 issue

[ghost]

jira-sync generally works well for me, except that a large proportion of tickets generate the error message:

Caught Encoding::CompatibilityError at '{"expand":"renderedF': incompatible encoding regexp match (ASCII-8BIT regexp with UTF-8 string)

This is probably my ruby environment rather than jira-sync itself, but I am not used to ruby and am having trouble tracking it down. The source is probably in the fact that the tickets concerned are generated using French keyboards and do contain such non-ASCII characters as <<. I have used rubymine to try and single-step, but have been defeated by the threading and failed to find where the regex is and the exception is thrown from. I've also tried grepping for 'renderedF' without success.

I am running on Centos 7 with ruby 2.0.0p598, and 'gem update' run on all local and system-wide gems.

[ghost]

The exception is thrown by the regex called from parse_string in JSON/Pure/parser.rb. It appears that this regex should handle special chars such as >> (\xab). I wonder if the source of the problem might be the body.force_encoding(UTF-8) at line 225 in HTTParty/request.rb, but simply commenting this out fails.

[ghost]

Appear to have 'fixed' this by hacking httparty/parser.rb to use multi_json with oj rather than json_pure:

def json MultiJson.use('oj') MultiJson.load(body) #JSON.parse(body, :quirks_mode => true, :allow_nan => true) end
Of course it may be that all I've done is got rid of the error messages! Will leave it running overnight and find out tomorrow..

[fleipold]

Thanks for looking into this. I have seen similar issues and quite frankly I fear that httparty is not exactly the http client to use. I am thinking switching to a different client. Unfortunately the way backwards compatibility is handled in httpclient doesn't inspire confidence either.