From: Aaron Patterson <aaron@...>
Date: 2010-06-02T09:24:00+09:00
Subject: Re: 1.9.3 Encoding Error w/ compressed data http request header

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On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 12:40:16AM +0900, Doug Livesey wrote:
> Hi -- it's possible that I'm getting all of this *entirely* wrong, so I
> thought I'd post what I'm trying to do here & see what comes back.
> Basically, I have a RoR web service that has bulk_create and bulk_update
> methods in one of its controllers.
> These take ActiveResource-style JSON hashes of potentially many objects
> to create or update.
> The service is JSON, so what I've been doing is using HTTParty to send
> the post and put requests to the service url with the objects data to be
> created or updated in the query string.
> Naturally, I quickly ran into issues with the amount of data that I
> could send that way, so I added compression with Zlib to the service,
> and to the client calling it.
> The client code, for example, looks a little like this:
>=20
>   My::Service( :put, "/objects/bulk_create.json", query: { objects_doc:
> Zlib::Deflate.deflate( objects.to_json ) } )
>=20
> This fixed the issue.
> However, I'm now updating the service to run on Ruby 1.9.3, and am
> running into encoding issues (apparently the bane of many a Ruby coder's
> life at the moment, although I'm only upgrading from 1.9.1).
> The error I'm actually getting is this: "invalid byte sequence in UTF-8
> (ArgumentError)"
> So I guess I have two questions:
> 1) How can I fix this so that it works again?
> 2) *Should* I fix it, or is there another way that I should be sending
> data to my web service?

Can you reduce the problem to code the breaks outside of your particular
application?  This sounds like something that *should* work, but it's
difficult for people to help if they can't reproduce the problem.

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Aaron Patterson
http://tenderlovemaking.com/

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