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json-schema-validator package

Unicode prefixes break tests in python-json-schema-validator with python-simplejson 3.16.0

Bug #1812061 reported by Dave Jones
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Bug Description

The json-schema-validator tests break under Python 2, when used with simplejson 3.16.0. They will also break if/when attempted under Python 3.

The underlying simplejson library subtly changes behaviour from 3.15.0 to 3.16.0. Under Python 2, with simplejson 3.15.0, passing a byte-string to simplejson.loads containing a blank JSON-encoded string, e.g. simplejson.loads('""') returns a unicode string (u''). However, under 3.16.0 this changes to return a byte-string (''). Passing a unicode-string to simplejson.loads containing a blank JSON-encoded string, e.g. simplejson.loads(u'""') return a unicode string under both versions.

Patched version at: https://launchpad.net/~waveform/+archive/ubuntu/pkg - 2.3.1-3ubuntu2

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Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100) wrote :

Sponsored as 2.3.1-3ubuntu1. Discussed with Dave the possibility of getting this fix upstream, but since the last upstream commit was 3 years ago this doesn't seem like a high priority.

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Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100) wrote :

Thanks for the fix!

Changed in json-schema-validator (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Committed
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