[el_Paraguayo]

I'm hoping someone can help with what I suspect is a fairly simple problem.

I've written a script that plays a random movie from the user's library. It works fine on my machine, but a user has said it's throwing up an error when he runs it.

The error is:

Code:

16:03:02 T:2604   ERROR: Error Type: <type 'exceptions.UnicodeDecodeError'>
16:03:02 T:2604   ERROR: Error Contents: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xf6 in position 3: invalid start byte
16:03:02 T:2260   DEBUG: Error: Requested setting (pvrmanager.enabled) was not found.  It must be case-sensitive
16:03:02 T:2604   ERROR: Traceback (most recent call last):
                                              File "C:\Users\xbmc\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\addons\script.randommovie\default.py", line 121, in <module>
                                                moviesJSON = getMovieLibrary()
                                              File "C:\Users\xbmc\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\addons\script.randommovie\default.py", line 33, in getMovieLibrary
                                                movies = json.loads(xbmc.executeJSONRPC('{"jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "VideoLibrary.GetMovies", "params": { "fields": ["genre", "playcount", "file"]}, "id": 1}'))
                                              File "C:\Users\xbmc\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\addons\script.module.simplejson\lib\simplejson\__init__.py", line 307, in loads
                                                return _default_decoder.decode(s)
                                              File "C:\Users\xbmc\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\addons\script.module.simplejson\lib\simplejson\decoder.py", line 335, in decode
                                                obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
                                              File "C:\Users\xbmc\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\addons\script.module.simplejson\lib\simplejson\decoder.py", line 351, in raw_decode
                                                obj, end = self.scan_once(s, idx)
                                              File "C:\Users\xbmc\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\addons\script.module.simplejson\lib\simplejson\scanner.py", line 36, in _scan_once
                                                return parse_object((string, idx + 1), encoding, strict, _scan_once, object_hook)
                                              File "C:\Users\xbmc\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\addons\script.module.simplejson\lib\simplejson\decoder.py", line 185, in JSONObject
                                                value, end = scan_once(s, end)
                                              File "C:\Users\xbmc\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\addons\script.module.simplejson\lib\simplejson\scanner.py", line 36, in _scan_once
                                                return parse_object((string, idx + 1), encoding, strict, _scan_once, object_hook)
                                              File "C:\Users\xbmc\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\addons\script.module.simplejson\lib\simplejson\decoder.py", line 185, in JSONObject
                                                value, end = scan_once(s, end)
                                              File "C:\Users\xbmc\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\addons\script.module.simplejson\lib\simplejson\scanner.py", line 38, in _scan_once
                                                return parse_array((string, idx + 1), _scan_once)
                                              File "C:\Users\xbmc\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\addons\script.module.simplejson\lib\simplejson\decoder.py", line 235, in JSONArray
                                                value, end = scan_once(s, end)
                                              File "C:\Users\xbmc\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\addons\script.module.simplejson\lib\simplejson\scanner.py", line 36, in _scan_once
                                                return parse_object((string, idx + 1), encoding, strict, _scan_once, object_hook)
                                              File "C:\Users\xbmc\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\addons\script.module.simplejson\lib\simplejson\decoder.py", line 185, in JSONObject
                                                value, end = scan_once(s, end)
                                              File "C:\Users\xbmc\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\addons\script.module.simplejson\lib\simplejson\scanner.py", line 34, in _scan_once
                                                return parse_string(string, idx + 1, encoding, strict)
                                              File "C:\Users\xbmc\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\addons\script.module.simplejson\lib\simplejson\decoder.py", line 89, in py_scanstring
                                                content = unicode(content, encoding)
                                            UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xf6 in position 3: invalid start byte

This to me looks like simplejson can't decode the json result which contains a letter with an accent (I think it's "ö").

Is there something I need to do in the script for it to handle the json result correctly?

For info, the line in the code is:

Code:

def getMovieLibrary():
  # get the raw JSON output
  movies = json.loads(xbmc.executeJSONRPC('{"jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "VideoLibrary.GetMovies", "params": { "fields": ["genre", "playcount", "file"]}, "id": 1}'))
  # and return it
  return movies

This is nightly version of xbmc running on Win7.

As said, it runs fine on my system so I suspect the error is related to the use of accented letters.

Thanks.

[el_Paraguayo]

I've come to a solution of sorts.

Code:

def getMovieLibrary():  
  # get the raw JSON output  
  moviestring = [b]unicode[/b](xbmc.executeJSONRPC('{"jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "VideoLibrary.GetMovies", "params": { "fields": ["genre", "playcount", "file"]}, "id": 1}'),[b] errors='ignore'[/b])
  movies = json.loads(moviestring)
  # and return it
  return movies

It's not ideal as we lose a character, but "errors='replace'" gives me the same problem.