[Pulp-list] f17 and simplejson

[Jeff Ortel]

Fedora 17 GOLD includes python-simplejson-2.3.0-2.fc17.  In simplejson 
2.2, support for namedtuples was added.  In doing so, a bug was 
introduced that causes JSON serialization errors in gofer <= 0.68.  A 
description and trace can be found in bugzilla 829767.

This issue has been addressed in gofer 0.69.  The basic change is 
re-parenting (messaging) Envelope & Options classes to 'object' rather 
than 'dict'.  Then, translating the envelope (as needed) to 'dict' 
during serialization.  This is a better approach anyway since overriding 
__getattr__ & __setattr__ on a subclass of dict opens the door for name 
collisions with native dict attributes.

This issue has *also* been addressed in simplejson 2.5.2 which is 
available in F17 (updates).  I intend to update (pulp) rpm/gofer to 0.69 
on master to be included in the today's QE build (dev/testing). 
However, since it appears that doing a 'yum update python-simplejson' is 
a viable workaround, I don't plan to update rpm/gofer on pulp_v1 
(v1/testing) at this time.  I'd like to get some miles on gofer 0.69 
running with v2 first.

So, on F17, if you're seeing this issue, do

# yum update python-simplejson

to be sure you have the latest (python-simplejson-2.5.2-1.fc17) and you 
should be good-to-go.  Remember to bounce goferd and httpd.  If you 
continue to see any issues, please let me know.


[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=829767