PUT_factory: __name__ ignored (Problem with non-ascii chars)

[Georg Pfolz]

Why it's needed:

It's a big issue with filenames that contain non-ascii characters, like German umlauts. When trying to upload them, it raises an error: BadRequest: The id "Täst.png" contains characters illegal in URLs.

Problem description:

When uploading a file via FTP and using a PUT_factory, the __name__ I provide is ignored.
code in the factory, i.e.: ob= Image(name, '', body, content_type=typ)

I tried using a custom class and I'm setting the __name__ and id of the newly created object in the __init__ method of its class. However this is completely ignored. For debugging purposes, I raised an exception in the last line of my __init__:
raise Exception, self.id

This gives me the correct newly created id. But it raises the error nonetheless, so I guess it is overwritten when the file is uploaded to the object. manage_afterAdd is not called.

[Hanno Schlichting (hannosch)]

Zope 2 only supports ascii object ids and urls at this point. So uploading files with non-ascii characters will definitely fail.

This isn't the place to debug and give support for custom code that tries to work around this. I believe there's a user mailing list somewhere.

[Georg Pfolz (georg-pfolz)]

ok, so it's not a bug. But as there does not seem to be a way around, it would be nice to have this "fixed" nonetheless. The non-US world is full of filenames with non-ascii characters.

[Georg Pfolz (georg-pfolz)]

Uploading a file with non-ascii characters should not automatically fail. At least there should be a possibility for the developer to provide a legal Zope id for such a file.

I didn't ask for support. As I understand it, there is no work around for this issue (sadly).

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

The zope2 project on Launchpad has been archived at the request of the Zope developers (see https://answers.launchpad.net/launchpad/+question/683589 and https://answers.launchpad.net/launchpad/+question/685285). If this bug is still relevant, please refile it at https://github.com/zopefoundation/zope2.