Opened 11 years ago

Closed 11 years ago

#20812 closed Bug (fixed)

django.utils.encoding.force_text() should call unicode() instead of __unicode__()

Reported by: lie.1296@… Owned by: Florian Apolloner
Component: Utilities Version: dev
Severity: Normal Keywords:
Cc: Triage Stage: Accepted
Has patch: yes Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no

Description (last modified by Tim Graham)

Unlike the unicode() builtin function, the method __unicode__() does not validate its return type.

If people wrote a buggy __unicode__ which does not return str or unicode, this can lead to a situation where force_text() will return non-text, and so the bug may only appear much, much later when other parts of the application assumes they were getting text and often it will become very difficult to find how the non-string object came from.

Expected result:

force_text() should be switched to use unicode() so returning non-text from __unicode__() will immediately raise an error at the point where the error would have been obvious.

Change History (4)

comment:2 by Tim Graham, 11 years ago

Description: modified (diff)

comment:3 by Marc Tamlyn, 11 years ago

I think the current implementation may have something to do with the cross python 2/3 compatibility. We could get the same effect by calling six.text_type(obj.__unicode__()), but I'm not sure if that's the best approach.

comment:4 by Florian Apolloner, 11 years ago

Has patch: set
Owner: changed from nobody to Florian Apolloner
Status: newassigned
Triage Stage: UnreviewedAccepted
Version: 1.5master

comment:5 by Florian Apolloner <florian@…>, 11 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: assignedclosed

In 2326dedde81c59950d2b1e0653a837e1d7019acd:

Fixed #20812 -- Error out if unicode/str doesn't return a text type.

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