Ceilometer cannot poll projects with unicode charachters in the description

[Christian Zunker]

We see these errors inside the ceilometer polling log:
2018-11-23 05:52:14.982 39694 ERROR ceilometer.polling.manager [-] Unable to discover resources: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xfc' in position 35: ordinal not in range(128): UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xfc' in position 35: ordinal not in range(128)
2018-11-23 05:52:14.982 39694 ERROR ceilometer.polling.manager Traceback (most recent call last):
2018-11-23 05:52:14.982 39694 ERROR ceilometer.polling.manager File "/openstack/venvs/ceilometer-17.1.1/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ceilometer/polling/manager.py", line 474, in discover
2018-11-23 05:52:14.982 39694 ERROR ceilometer.polling.manager ].belongs_to_self(six.text_type(v))]
2018-11-23 05:52:14.982 39694 ERROR ceilometer.polling.manager File "/openstack/venvs/ceilometer-17.1.1/lib/python2.7/site-packages/tooz/partitioner.py", line 91, in belongs_to_self
2018-11-23 05:52:14.982 39694 ERROR ceilometer.polling.manager replicas=replicas)
2018-11-23 05:52:14.982 39694 ERROR ceilometer.polling.manager File "/openstack/venvs/ceilometer-17.1.1/lib/python2.7/site-packages/tooz/partitioner.py", line 80, in belongs_to_member
2018-11-23 05:52:14.982 39694 ERROR ceilometer.polling.manager obj, ignore_members=ignore_members, replicas=replicas)
2018-11-23 05:52:14.982 39694 ERROR ceilometer.polling.manager File "/openstack/venvs/ceilometer-17.1.1/lib/python2.7/site-packages/tooz/partitioner.py", line 66, in members_for_object
2018-11-23 05:52:14.982 39694 ERROR ceilometer.polling.manager return self.ring.get_nodes(self._hash_object(obj),
2018-11-23 05:52:14.982 39694 ERROR ceilometer.polling.manager File "/openstack/venvs/ceilometer-17.1.1/lib/python2.7/site-packages/tooz/partitioner.py", line 56, in _hash_object
2018-11-23 05:52:14.982 39694 ERROR ceilometer.polling.manager return str(obj).encode()
2018-11-23 05:52:14.982 39694 ERROR ceilometer.polling.manager UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xfc' in position 35: ordinal not in range(128)
2018-11-23 05:52:14.982 39694 ERROR ceilometer.polling.manager

I could trace this back to a project containing the german word "für" in the project description. Changing the project description fixes the problem.

We are using ceilometer pip package version 10.0.2.dev2

[Tobias Urdin (tobias-urdin)]

Same problems happens for project names

[Tobias Urdin (tobias-urdin)]

openstack-ceilometer-notification-11.0.0-1.el7.noarch
python2-ceilometerclient-2.9.0-1.el7.noarch
python-ceilometer-11.0.0-1.el7.noarch
openstack-ceilometer-common-11.0.0-1.el7.noarch
openstack-ceilometer-polling-11.0.0-1.el7.noarch

python2-tooz-1.62.0-1.el7.noarch

Rocky cloud

[Tobias Urdin (tobias-urdin)]

This should be solved with tooz 1.62.1 and above