UnicodeEncodeError while saving

[Nazerr]

Hi everyone !

Encountering some problems with the solution :

First of all, the command 'grafana-backup save' would not work (401 Unauthorized at the API check).
Double Checked the configuration file, everything was okay.
Eventually figured it out with this issue Backup of Docker #116 by using ENV Variables. <= If anyone can explain why this is not working with the conf file, i would be interested !

Now i can pass the API Check without any issue but the script is throwing another error :

query dashboard uri: http://GRAFANA-IP:3000/api/dashboards/uid/_G0nsXRgk
[DEBUG] resp status: 200
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/grafana_backup/commons.py", line 14, in log_response
    print("[DEBUG] resp body: {0}".format(resp.json()))
UnicodeEncodeError: 'latin-1' codec can't encode character '\u20ac' in position 3945: ordinal not in range(256)

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/grafana-backup", line 10, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/grafana_backup/cli.py", line 52, in main
    save(args, settings)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/grafana_backup/save.py", line 51, in main
    backup_functions[backup_function](args, settings)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/grafana_backup/save_dashboards.py", line 26, in main
    save_dashboards_above_Ver6_2(folder_path, log_file, grafana_url, http_get_headers, verify_ssl, client_cert, debug, pretty_print, uid_support)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/grafana_backup/save_dashboards.py", line 86, in save_dashboards_above_Ver6_2
    get_individual_dashboard_setting_and_save(dashboards, folder_path, log_file, grafana_url, http_get_headers, verify_ssl, client_cert, debug, pretty_print, uid_support)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/grafana_backup/save_dashboards.py", line 64, in get_individual_dashboard_setting_and_save
    (status, content) = get_dashboard(board_uri, grafana_url, http_get_headers, verify_ssl, client_cert, debug)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/grafana_backup/dashboardApi.py", line 83, in get_dashboard
    (status_code, content) = send_grafana_get(url, http_get_headers, verify_ssl, client_cert, debug)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/grafana_backup/dashboardApi.py", line 329, in send_grafana_get
    log_response(r)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/grafana_backup/commons.py", line 16, in log_response
    print("[DEBUG] resp body: {0}".format(resp.text))
UnicodeEncodeError: 'latin-1' codec can't encode character '\u20ac' in position 3606: ordinal not in range(256)

Any solution is appreciated !

Have a nice day :)

[acjohnson]

@Nazerr
UnicodeEncodeError: 'latin-1' codec can't encode character '\u20ac' in position 3945: ordinal not in range(256)

This message tells me you have a character in your config file that isn't being read correctly which according to this site it looks like a € character might be the culprit https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/20ac/index.htm

[acjohnson]

@Nazerr also if you want you could do some unicode encode/decode troubleshooting to see if you can figure out where the € is coming from. Perhaps something like this in commons.py would help (try encoding the response string to utf8)

def log_response(resp):
    status_code = resp.status_code
    print("[DEBUG] resp status: {0}".format(status_code))
    try:
        print("[DEBUG] resp body: {0}".format(resp.json().encode("utf-8")))
        #print("[DEBUG] resp body: {0}".format(resp.json()))
    except ValueError:
        print("[DEBUG] resp body: {0}".format(resp.text))
    return resp

[Nazerr]

@acjohnson Thanks, will try this !