[IMPALA-489] impala-shell only works with ascii characters

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: Impala 1.1
• Fix Version/s: Impala 1.4
• Assignee: Ishaan Joshi
• Reporter: Lenni Kuff
• Created: 26/Jul/13 18:16
• Updated: 09/Jul/14 16:12
• Resolved: 08/Jul/14 22:46

Description

The impala-shell only works with ASCII characters. It seems to be an issue in the code stores results in history as well as builds multi-line commands.

[localhost:21000] > select 'Ѳ'
                  > ;
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/lskuff/dev/Impala/shell/impala_shell.py", line 1030, in <module>
    shell.cmdloop(intro)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/cmd.py", line 141, in cmdloop
    line = self.precmd(line)
  File "/home/lskuff/dev/Impala/shell/impala_shell.py", line 262, in precmd
    args = self.sanitise_input(args)
  File "/home/lskuff/dev/Impala/shell/impala_shell.py", line 196, in sanitise_input
    args = self.__check_for_command_completion(' '.join(tokens).strip())
  File "/home/lskuff/dev/Impala/shell/impala_shell.py", line 250, in __check_for_command_completion
    completed_cmd.replace('\n', ' '))
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u0472' in position 8: ordinal not in range(128)