partially revert 154c4ea9e

explicitly en- and decoding xmlrpc requests in the python proxy broke
plugins on debian sid, while it was introduced to fix breakage in debian
stable. it is assumed that an xml module involved changed its behavior
from str to unicode, this patch handles both cases.

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/plugins/proxy.py b/plugins/proxy.py
index d70a967a5..e8782e6e4 100755
--- a/plugins/proxy.py
+++ b/plugins/proxy.py
@@ -158,15 +158,23 @@ class _IkiWikiExtPluginXMLRPCHandler(object):
     def send_rpc(self, cmd, in_fd, out_fd, *args, **kwargs):
         xml = _xmlrpc_client.dumps(sum(kwargs.items(), args), cmd)
         self._debug_fn(
-            "calling ikiwiki procedure `{0}': [{1}]".format(cmd, xml))
-        _IkiWikiExtPluginXMLRPCHandler._write(out_fd, xml.encode('utf8'))
+            "calling ikiwiki procedure `{0}': [{1}]".format(cmd, repr(xml)))
+        if isinstance(xml, unicode):
+            encoded = xml.encode('utf8')
+        else:
+            encoded = xml
+        _IkiWikiExtPluginXMLRPCHandler._write(out_fd, encoded)
 
         self._debug_fn('reading response from ikiwiki...')
 
-        xml = _IkiWikiExtPluginXMLRPCHandler._read(in_fd).decode('utf8')
+        response = _IkiWikiExtPluginXMLRPCHandler._read(in_fd)
+        if isinstance(response, unicode):
+            xml = response.encode('utf8')
+        else:
+            xml = response
         self._debug_fn(
             'read response to procedure {0} from ikiwiki: [{1}]'.format(
-                cmd, xml))
+                cmd, repr(xml)))
         if xml is None:
             # ikiwiki is going down
             self._debug_fn('ikiwiki is going down, and so are we...')