[PROTON-505] Unicode support for Messenger.subscribe() for Python client is broken

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Affects Version/s: proton-0.6
• Component/s: python-binding
• Labels: messenger
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Brian Bouterse
• Created: 31/Jan/14 17:21
• Updated: 20/Oct/17 22:13
• Resolved: 20/Oct/17 22:13

Description

When passing in a unicode string to Messenger.subscribe(), an error results.

Run this code to reproduce:
from proton import Messenger
mng = Messenger
mng.start()
unicode_subscribe_string = unicode("amqp://localhost/my_queue")
mng.subscribe(unicode_subscribe_string)

Resultant Error:
File "proton.py", line 447, in subscribe
sub_impl = pn_messenger_subscribe(self._mng, source)
TypeError: in method 'pn_messenger_subscribe', argument 2 of type 'char const *'

I expected unicode strings to behave the same as non-unicode strings