[ pywikipediabot-Support Requests-3019475 ] No JSON object could be decoded - Pywikipedia-bugs

22 Jun 2010


      Support Requests item #3019475, was opened at 2010-06-22 10:59
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Category: Install Problem
Group: None
Status: Open
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: https://www.google.com/accounts ()
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: No JSON object could be decoded
Initial Comment:
On Ubuntu 10.04, Karmic LAMP (PHP 5.2) Python 2.6.5, pywikipediabot from 2010-05-29 SVN, using identical server and bot configuration files as on a Mac setup (however, in this case, pywikipediabot reports an IP address, so I didn't need to hack httpd.conf), I get the following:
"Logging into FamilyName:en as UserName via API
Error downloading data: No JSON object could be decoded
Request en:/scriptpath/api.php?
Retrying in x seconds
I changed this to milliseconds to timely see the final error message, which is:
ERROR: ApiGetDataParse cause error No JSON object could be decoded
The program also creates a dump file containing the following:
Error reported: No JSON object could be decoded
127.0.0.1
/scriptpath/api.php?
<feff>{"login":{"result":"NeedToken","token":"[some md5-looking hash]"}}
Any ideas?
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Comment By: Merlijn S. van Deen (valhallasw)
Date: 2010-06-22 11:59
Message:
The <feff> is a UTF-16 BOM. Either urllib was changed, or you made some
change to api.php, accidentally adding it. Could you double-check if your
api.php is unchanged from the original mediawiki files (in other words:
replace it with an orginal from SVN/release)?
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Comment By: https://www.google.com/accounts ()
Date: 2010-06-22 11:06
Message:
Looking at some earlier logs, I see that this problem first appeared when I
upgraded from Python 2.6.1 to 2.6.2 in May. I am surprised that I seem to
be the only person having this problem.
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