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How to resolve "ValueError: All strings must be XML compatible: Unicode or ASCII, no NULL bytes or control characters" error

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Marek Jan-Alexander

Hi all,

is there any way how to catch which string (construction) is making trouble? Neither trace nor log are concrete:

Server Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "E:\erp7\Server\server\openerp\addons\web\session.py", line 89, in send
  File "E:\erp7\Server\server\.\openerp\netsvc.py", line 296, in dispatch_rpc
  File "E:\erp7\Server\server\.\openerp\service\web_services.py", line 626, in dispatch
  File "E:\erp7\Server\server\.\openerp\osv\osv.py", line 190, in execute_kw
  File "E:\erp7\Server\server\.\openerp\osv\osv.py", line 132, in wrapper
  File "E:\erp7\Server\server\.\openerp\osv\osv.py", line 199, in execute
  File "E:\erp7\Server\server\.\openerp\osv\osv.py", line 187, in execute_cr
  File "E:\erp7\Server\server\.\openerp\osv\orm.py", line 3679, in read
  File "E:\erp7\Server\server\.\openerp\osv\orm.py", line 3800, in _read_flat
  File "E:\erp7\Server\server\.\openerp\osv\fields.py", line 1145, in get
  File "E:\erp7\Server\server\openerp\addons\base\ir\ir_actions.py", line 211, in _search_view
  File "E:\erp7\Server\server\.\openerp\osv\orm.py", line 2262, in fields_view_get
  File "E:\erp7\Server\server\.\openerp\osv\orm.py", line 1987, in _get_default_search_view
  File "lxml.etree.pyx", line 2812, in lxml.etree.Element (src\lxml\lxml.etree.c:61433)
  File "apihelpers.pxi", line 123, in lxml.etree._makeElement (src\lxml\lxml.etree.c:13864)
  File "apihelpers.pxi", line 111, in lxml.etree._makeElement (src\lxml\lxml.etree.c:13736)
  File "apihelpers.pxi", line 264, in lxml.etree._initNodeAttributes (src\lxml\lxml.etree.c:15403)
  File "apihelpers.pxi", line 1333, in lxml.etree._utf8 (src\lxml\lxml.etree.c:24702)
ValueError: All strings must be XML compatible: Unicode or ASCII, no NULL bytes or control characters

We try to port OERP 6.1 module to version 7 and subsequently 8.

Thanks a lot for help!

Marek Jan-Alexander

 

 

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klacus
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Yes you must avoid the accents in description.  Not so easy sometimes, if your mother language is not english :-) Like me, the hungarian language full fill with accents. (I see this error message daily :-)) )

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AmiNe
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solution:

  _description = u'Description with é'  

instead of :

  _description = 'Description with é'  
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Marek Jan-Alexander
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I found the solution myself. In fact it was not an issue raised by XML view file but by the .py file itself. Beware - you should restrain using special characters in _descrition section of your class.

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Sandro Regis

Exactly that! A little distraction on accents and a lot of lines of erros. Thanks for share the solution.

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