[PATCH v2] pwclient: Force xmlrpc client to return unicode strings

[Stephen Finucane]

On Tue, 2017-05-23 at 15:24 +0200, Robin Jarry wrote:
> On python 2, the reference implementation of the XML-RPC unmarshaller
> decodes strings to unicode with the selected encoding (utf-8 by
> default)
> but it tries to re-encode the unicode strings to ascii bytes before
> returning the values. If it fails, it leaves the value as unicode.
> 
> See these links for more details:
> 
>   https://hg.python.org/cpython/file/2.7/Lib/xmlrpclib.py#l878
>   https://hg.python.org/cpython/file/2.7/Lib/xmlrpclib.py#l180
> 
>   https://hg.python.org/cpython/file/3.6/Lib/xmlrpc/client.py#l753
> 
> Monkey-patch the internal xmlrpclib._stringify() function only on
> python
> 2 to force it to preserve unicode strings. This allows to have
> similar
> behaviour in both python 2 and python 3.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Robin Jarry <robin.jarry at 6wind.com>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Finucane <stephen at that.guru>

This is applied now. Thanks for following up on this, Robin and Daniel.

Stephen