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From: "Ben Keene via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Ben Keene <seraphire@gmail.com>, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 0/3] git-p4.py: Cast byte strings to unicode strings in python3
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2019 14:39:13 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <pull.463.v2.git.1573828756.gitgitgadget@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pull.463.git.1573679258.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

git-p4.py: Cast byte strings to unicode strings in python3

I tried to run git-p4 under python3 and it failed with an error that it
could not connect to the P4 server. This PR covers updating the git-p4.py
python script to work with unicode strings in python3.

Changes since v1: Commit: (0435d0e) 2019-11-14

The problem was caused by the ustring() function being called on a string
that had already been cast as a unicode string. This second call to
ustring() would fail with an error of "decoding str is not supported"

The following changes were made to fix this:

The call to ustring() in the gitConfig() function is actually unnecessary
because the read_pipe() function returns unicode strings so the call has
been removed.

The ustring() function was given a new conditional test to see if the value
is already a unicode value. If it is, the value will be returned without any
casting.

These two changes should fix the immediate fail. However, I do not have an
environment that I can run the test suite against so I don't know if another
error will be uncovered yet. I'm still working on it.

v1: (Initial Commit)

This is caused by the return values from the process.popen returning byte
strings and the code is failing when it is comparing these with literal
strings which are Unicode in Python 3.

To support this, I added a new function ustring() in the code that
determines if python is natively supporting Unicode (Python 3) or not
(Python 2). 

 * If the python version supports Unicode (Python 3), it will cast the text
   (expected a byte string) to UTF-8. This allows the existing code to match
   literal strings as expected.
   
   
 * If the python version does not natively support Unicode (Python 2) the
   ustring() function does not change the byte string, maintaining current
   behavior.
   
   

There are a few notable methods changed:

 * pipe functions have their output passed through the ustring() function:
   
    * read_pipe_full(c)
    * p4_has_move_command()
   
   
 * p4CmdList has new conditional code to parse the dictionary marshaled from
   the process call. Both the keys and values are converted to Unicode.
   
   
 * gitConfig passes the return value through ustring() so all calls to
   gitConfig return unicode values.
   
   

Signed-off-by: Ben Keene seraphire@gmail.com [seraphire@gmail.com]

Ben Keene (3):
  Cast byte strings to unicode strings in python3
  FIX: cast as unicode fails when a value is already unicode
  FIX: wrap return for read_pipe_lines in ustring() and wrap GitLFS read
    of the pointer file in ustring()

 git-p4.py | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 36 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)


base-commit: d9f6f3b6195a0ca35642561e530798ad1469bd41
Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-463%2Fseraphire%2Fseraphire%2Fp4-python3-unicode-v2
Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-463/seraphire/seraphire/p4-python3-unicode-v2
Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/463

Range-diff vs v1:

 1:  0bca930ff8 = 1:  0bca930ff8 Cast byte strings to unicode strings in python3
 -:  ---------- > 2:  0435d0e2cb FIX: cast as unicode fails when a value is already unicode
 -:  ---------- > 3:  2288690b94 FIX: wrap return for read_pipe_lines in ustring() and wrap GitLFS read of the pointer file in ustring()

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-11-15 14:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 77+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-11-13 21:07 [PATCH 0/1] git-p4.py: Cast byte strings to unicode strings in python3 Ben Keene via GitGitGadget
2019-11-13 21:07 ` [PATCH 1/1] " Ben Keene via GitGitGadget
2019-11-14  2:25 ` [PATCH 0/1] git-p4.py: " Junio C Hamano
2019-11-14  9:46   ` Luke Diamand
2019-11-15 14:39 ` Ben Keene via GitGitGadget [this message]
2019-11-15 14:39   ` [PATCH v2 1/3] " Ben Keene via GitGitGadget
2019-11-15 14:39   ` [PATCH v2 2/3] FIX: cast as unicode fails when a value is already unicode Ben Keene via GitGitGadget
2019-11-15 14:39   ` [PATCH v2 3/3] FIX: wrap return for read_pipe_lines in ustring() and wrap GitLFS read of the pointer file in ustring() Ben Keene via GitGitGadget
2019-12-02 19:02   ` [PATCH v3 0/1] git-p4.py: Cast byte strings to unicode strings in python3 Ben Keene via GitGitGadget
2019-12-02 19:02     ` [PATCH v3 1/1] Python3 support for t9800 tests. Basic P4/Python3 support Ben Keene via GitGitGadget
2019-12-03  0:18       ` Denton Liu
2019-12-03 16:03         ` Ben Keene
2019-12-04  6:14           ` Denton Liu
2019-12-04 22:29     ` [PATCH v4 00/11] git-p4.py: Cast byte strings to unicode strings in python3 Ben Keene via GitGitGadget
2019-12-04 22:29       ` [PATCH v4 01/11] git-p4: select p4 binary by operating-system Ben Keene via GitGitGadget
2019-12-05 10:19         ` Denton Liu
2019-12-05 16:32           ` Ben Keene
2019-12-04 22:29       ` [PATCH v4 02/11] git-p4: change the expansion test from basestring to list Ben Keene via GitGitGadget
2019-12-05 10:27         ` Denton Liu
2019-12-05 17:05           ` Ben Keene
2019-12-04 22:29       ` [PATCH v4 03/11] git-p4: add new helper functions for python3 conversion Ben Keene via GitGitGadget
2019-12-05 10:40         ` Denton Liu
2019-12-05 18:42           ` Ben Keene
2019-12-04 22:29       ` [PATCH v4 04/11] git-p4: python3 syntax changes Ben Keene via GitGitGadget
2019-12-05 11:02         ` Denton Liu
2019-12-04 22:29       ` [PATCH v4 05/11] git-p4: Add new functions in preparation of usage Ben Keene via GitGitGadget
2019-12-05 10:50         ` Denton Liu
2019-12-05 19:23           ` Ben Keene
2019-12-04 22:29       ` [PATCH v4 06/11] git-p4: Fix assumed path separators to be more Windows friendly Ben Keene via GitGitGadget
2019-12-05 13:38         ` Junio C Hamano
2019-12-05 19:37           ` Ben Keene
2019-12-04 22:29       ` [PATCH v4 07/11] git-p4: Add a helper class for stream writing Ben Keene via GitGitGadget
2019-12-05 13:42         ` Junio C Hamano
2019-12-05 19:52           ` Ben Keene
2019-12-04 22:29       ` [PATCH v4 08/11] git-p4: p4CmdList - support Unicode encoding Ben Keene via GitGitGadget
2019-12-05 13:55         ` Junio C Hamano
2019-12-05 20:23           ` Ben Keene
2019-12-04 22:29       ` [PATCH v4 09/11] git-p4: Add usability enhancements Ben Keene via GitGitGadget
2019-12-05 14:04         ` Junio C Hamano
2019-12-05 15:40           ` Ben Keene
2019-12-04 22:29       ` [PATCH v4 10/11] git-p4: Support python3 for basic P4 clone, sync, and submit Ben Keene via GitGitGadget
2019-12-04 22:29       ` [PATCH v4 11/11] git-p4: Added --encoding parameter to p4 clone Ben Keene via GitGitGadget
2019-12-05  9:54       ` [PATCH v4 00/11] git-p4.py: Cast byte strings to unicode strings in python3 Luke Diamand
2019-12-05 16:16         ` Ben Keene
2019-12-05 18:51           ` Denton Liu
2019-12-05 20:47             ` Ben Keene
2019-12-07 17:47       ` [PATCH v5 00/15] " Ben Keene via GitGitGadget
2019-12-07 17:47         ` [PATCH v5 01/15] t/gitweb-lib.sh: drop confusing quotes Jeff King via GitGitGadget
2019-12-07 17:47         ` [PATCH v5 02/15] t/gitweb-lib.sh: set $REQUEST_URI Jeff King via GitGitGadget
2019-12-07 17:47         ` [PATCH v5 03/15] git-p4: select P4 binary by operating-system Ben Keene via GitGitGadget
2019-12-09 19:47           ` Junio C Hamano
2019-12-07 17:47         ` [PATCH v5 04/15] git-p4: change the expansion test from basestring to list Ben Keene via GitGitGadget
2019-12-09 20:25           ` Junio C Hamano
2019-12-13 14:40             ` Ben Keene
2019-12-07 17:47         ` [PATCH v5 05/15] git-p4: promote encodeWithUTF8() to a global function Ben Keene via GitGitGadget
2019-12-11 16:39           ` Junio C Hamano
2019-12-07 17:47         ` [PATCH v5 06/15] git-p4: remove p4_write_pipe() and write_pipe() return values Ben Keene via GitGitGadget
2019-12-07 17:47         ` [PATCH v5 07/15] git-p4: add new support function gitConfigSet() Ben Keene via GitGitGadget
2019-12-11 17:11           ` Junio C Hamano
2019-12-07 17:47         ` [PATCH v5 08/15] git-p4: add casting helper functions for python 3 conversion Ben Keene via GitGitGadget
2019-12-07 17:47         ` [PATCH v5 09/15] git-p4: python 3 syntax changes Ben Keene via GitGitGadget
2019-12-07 17:47         ` [PATCH v5 10/15] git-p4: fix assumed path separators to be more Windows friendly Ben Keene via GitGitGadget
2019-12-07 17:47         ` [PATCH v5 11/15] git-p4: add Py23File() - helper class for stream writing Ben Keene via GitGitGadget
2019-12-07 17:47         ` [PATCH v5 12/15] git-p4: p4CmdList - support Unicode encoding Ben Keene via GitGitGadget
2019-12-07 17:47         ` [PATCH v5 13/15] git-p4: support Python 3 for basic P4 clone, sync, and submit (t9800) Ben Keene via GitGitGadget
2019-12-07 17:47         ` [PATCH v5 14/15] git-p4: added --encoding parameter to p4 clone Ben Keene via GitGitGadget
2019-12-07 17:47         ` [PATCH v5 15/15] git-p4: Add depot manipulation functions Ben Keene via GitGitGadget
2019-12-07 19:47         ` [PATCH v5 00/15] git-p4.py: Cast byte strings to unicode strings in python3 Jeff King
2019-12-07 21:27           ` Ben Keene
2019-12-11 16:54             ` Junio C Hamano
2019-12-11 17:13               ` Denton Liu
2019-12-11 17:57                 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-12-11 20:19                   ` Luke Diamand
2019-12-11 21:46                     ` Junio C Hamano
2019-12-11 22:30                       ` Yang Zhao
2019-12-12 14:13                         ` Ben Keene
2019-12-13 19:42                           ` [PATCH v5 00/15] git-p4.py: Cast byte strings to unicode strings in python3 - Code Review Ben Keene

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