Unicode argument without an encoding

[Marcela Bonell]

When I try to generate a fractal images with a deployment that includes the services instance (following the Scaling out section: http://developer.openstack.org/draft/firstapp-shade/scaling_out.html), the faafo-api error log reports that an unicode argument is given without an encoding.

Full log: http://paste.openstack.org/show/530937/

[Craig Sterrett (craig-sterrett)]

This is an issue with pymysql v 0.7, they made a change to throw an exception if you try to store unicode data in a binary column which the fractal image data is stored in a blob. One fix is to back pymysql to v 0.6.7 with the command "pip install -U PyMySQL==0.6.7" and then recycle faafo.

[Craig Sterrett (craig-sterrett)]

https://review.openstack.org/386229

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Reviewed: https://review.openstack.org/386229
Committed: https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/faafo/commit/?id=f19885b6294dcae766651526341f8443e723148b
Submitter: Jenkins
Branch: master

commit f19885b6294dcae766651526341f8443e723148b
Author: Craig Sterrett <email address hidden>
Date: Thu Oct 13 14:02:55 2016 -0700

    Changed pymysql version in requirements.txt file

    Changed the requirements.txt file to install versions of pymysql less than
    v0.7. A change was made in V0.7 to throw an exception if you try to store
    unicode data in a binary column which the fractal image data is stored in
    a blob.

    Closes-Bug: #1602322

    Change-Id: I58bbe49b4ab48c0fcd1801d96fdf737d5f1f28ab