special character swift container names cause errors

[Cindy Lu]

In Containers panel, create a new container with the name "façade"

After pressing Save, it will show a success and error message. Please see attached image (A).

The error message says 'Unable to retrieve object list" but the list seems to show up properly.

Then when you click on 'View Details' the screen just flickers.

Console shows:
ClientException: Container HEAD failed: http://<url>:8080/v1/AUTH_2d63c14b7e4d44cb89ca10fccc0abf5b/fa%25C3%25A7ade 404 Not Found
Recoverable error: Container HEAD failed: http://<url>:8080/v1/AUTH_2d63c14b7e4d44cb89ca10fccc0abf5b/fa%25C3%25A7ade 404 Not Found

And when you click on the container name, it will show many errors. Please see image (B).

Related to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/horizon/+bug/1336603

[Gary W. Smith (gary-w-smith)]

For those lacking non-English characters on their keyboard, this can also be reproduced by using a name like "one:two".

[Nikunj Aggarwal (nikunj2512)]

Noe able to reproduce this bug anymore

[Romain Hardouin (romain-hardouin)]

There is a workaround in Horizon to handle correctly special chars in containers' name when using a version of Django < 1.6.
A changeset that checks which version of Django is used has been merged on January 22: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/142007/1

In short: it's fixed.