search query * -> 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xae' in position 3739: ordinal not in range(128)

[Travis Tripp]

tripp@ubuntu:/opt/stack/swift$ openstack search query "*"

'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xae' in position 3739: ordinal not in range(128)

ttripp@ubuntu:/opt/stack/swift$ openstack search query *
usage: openstack search query [-h] [-f {csv,json,table,value,yaml}]
                              [-c COLUMN] [--max-width <integer>] [--noindent]
                              [--quote {all,minimal,none,nonnumeric}] [--json]
                              [--type [<resource-type> [<resource-type> ...]]]
                              [--all-projects] [--source [[<field>,...]]]
                              <query>
openstack search query: error: unrecognized arguments: CHANGELOG CONTRIBUTING.md LICENSE MANIFEST.in README.md babel.cfg bandit.yaml bin doc etc examples requirements.txt setup.cfg setup.py swift swift.egg-info test test-requirements.txt tox.ini
ttripp@ubuntu:/opt/stack/swift$ openstack

(openstack) search query *
'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xae' in position 3739: ordinal not in range(128)

(openstack) search query "*"
'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xae' in position 3739: ordinal not in range(128)

(openstack) search query cirros
+--------------------------------------+---------------------------------+------------+-------------------+----------------------+
| ID | Name | Score | Type | Updated |
+--------------------------------------+---------------------------------+------------+-------------------+----------------------+
| 6d1b3cb3-c0fa-44b6-9cad-261f046ae311 | cirros-0.3.3-x86_64-disk | 0.8837948 | OS::Glance::Image | 2016-03-17T18:46:33Z |
| 3fae102d-1b1a-44c5-b9c6-6b1d473973ea | cirros-0.3.4-x86_64-uec-ramdisk | 0.76434696 | OS::Glance::Image | 2016-03-17T18:46:49Z |
| 03d2b846-f273-4891-acd3-cba21eb003b7 | cirros-0.3.4-x86_64-uec-kernel | 0.70952487 | OS::Glance::Image | 2016-03-17T18:46:47Z |
| 6f9e02da-da9e-402b-bcdc-9369a32c7dbf | cirros-0.3.4-x86_64-uec | 0.5477384 | OS::Glance::Image | 2016-03-17T18:46:50Z |
+--------------------------------------+---------------------------------+------------+-------------------+----------------------+

[Steve McLellan (sjmc7)]

\xae is the 'reserved' character. Hopefully this is happening during the table rendering and should be easy to fix.

[Steve McLellan (sjmc7)]

Could this be your terminal settings? This works ok for me:

* create a server with the name 'test ®'
* check it's indexed properly

Run a search:

  openstack search query '*' --type OS::Nova::Server

Check that you've got the LANG environment variable set properly - if it's not, try

  export LANG=en_US.UTF-8

[Travis Tripp (travis-tripp)]

I found something interesting. When you source devstack/openrc, it resets your lang.

ttripp@ubuntu:~$ echo $LANG
en_US.UTF-8

ttripp@ubuntu:~$ source ~/devstack/openrc admin demo

ttripp@ubuntu:~$ echo $LANG

ttripp@ubuntu:~$

[Steve McLellan (sjmc7)]

Looks like this condition exists in openstackclient. 'openstack server list' will ALSO raise an error if the console's not set right.

On a devstack machine, you'll need to do:

  export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
  unset LC_ALL

Then openstackclient commands will work. I think we should close this as invalid, though perhaps add to the documentation somewhere.