Only "Featured" category not displaying videos

[vecnar]

Hello,

Featured videos are not showing today, the rest are working including search. I checked the kodi forum post but no info about it so i decided to post here. I am using version1.4.2 and below is the output from the log after accessing featured category.

`2020-10-14 20:47:19.278 T:5996 ERROR: EXCEPTION Thrown (PythonToCppException) : -->Python callback/script returned the following error<--

• NOTE: IGNORING THIS CAN LEAD TO MEMORY LEAKS! Error Type: <type 'exceptions.UnicodeEncodeError'> Error Contents: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position 3: ordinal not in range(128) Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Users\oleg\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\plugin.video.liveleak\default.py", line 492, in if url: index(url) File "C:\Users\oleg\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\plugin.video.liveleak\default.py", line 401, in index (url, liz) = buildListItem(item) File "C:\Users\oleg\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\plugin.video.liveleak\default.py", line 233, in buildListItem cmd = cmd.format( buildUrl( {'mode': 'label_user', 'user': credit} ) ) File "C:\Users\oleg\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\plugin.video.liveleak\default.py", line 119, in buildUrl return BASE_URL + '?' + urlencode(query) File "C:\Program Files\Kodi\system\python\Lib\urllib.py", line 1343, in urlencode v = quote_plus(str(v)) UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position 3: ordinal not in range(128) -->End of Python script error report<-- 2020-10-14 20:47:19.323 T:1708 ERROR: XFILE::CDirectory::GetDirectory - Error getting plugin://plugin.video.liveleak/?mode=indx&url=browse%3fa%3dlist%26featured%3d1%26page%3d1 2020-10-14 20:47:19.330 T:6424 ERROR: CGUIMediaWindow::GetDirectory(plugin://plugin.video.liveleak/?mode=indx&url=browse%3fa%3dlist%26featured%3d1%26page%3d1) failed `

Let me know if you would like me to test anything.

Thank you,

Oleg

[Botster]

Thank you for reporting that.

If I am correct in what I suspect is causing that, you could also experience it in other categories as well. I need to take some time to ensure the fix won't break something else. I'm on it.

By the way, what version of Kodi are you using?

[vecnar]

Thank you for looking into this.

I have just tried to access each category from kodi and all except "featured" are listing videos and i am able to play them where featured do no list the videos. I am using kodi version 18 on old windows 7 64 bit os, i have also tried on android on the phone and on amazon fire tv stick and it is the same. Starting Kodi (18.4 Git:20190831-3ade758ceb). Platform: Windows NT x86 64-bit

[vecnar]

Hello, Just a quick update on the issue, as you pointed out it is not category specific. I was able to see page 1 in the morning but not page 2 but now i can also see page 2 but not page 3 so it has to be with some video description or something on page 3. I thought to make a screenshot of page 2 in case it helps you to identify which video has characters that are causing below error `2020-10-16 11:55:32.309 T:5796 ERROR: EXCEPTION Thrown (PythonToCppException) : -->Python callback/script returned the following error<--

• NOTE: IGNORING THIS CAN LEAD TO MEMORY LEAKS! Error Type: <type 'exceptions.UnicodeEncodeError'> Error Contents: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position 3: ordinal not in range(128) Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Users\oleg\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\plugin.video.liveleak\default.py", line 492, in if url: index(url) File "C:\Users\oleg\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\plugin.video.liveleak\default.py", line 401, in index (url, liz) = buildListItem(item) File "C:\Users\oleg\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\plugin.video.liveleak\default.py", line 233, in buildListItem cmd = cmd.format( buildUrl( {'mode': 'label_user', 'user': credit} ) ) File "C:\Users\oleg\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\plugin.video.liveleak\default.py", line 119, in buildUrl return BASE_URL + '?' + urlencode(query) File "C:\Program Files\Kodi\system\python\Lib\urllib.py", line 1343, in urlencode v = quote_plus(str(v)) UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position 3: ordinal not in range(128) -->End of Python script error report<-- 2020-10-16 11:55:32.359 T:2792 ERROR: XFILE::CDirectory::GetDirectory - Error getting plugin://plugin.video.liveleak/?mode=indx&url=browse%3fa%3dlist%26featured%3d1%26page%3d3 2020-10-16 11:55:32.385 T:4484 ERROR: CGUIMediaWindow::GetDirectory(plugin://plugin.video.liveleak/?mode=indx&url=browse%3fa%3dlist%26featured%3d1%26page%3d3) failed`

[Botster]

Thank you for that additional information.

I haven't been able to duplicate the issue, but I am sure it is due to characters in a LL user's name that do not fit within the ASCII character set. I have edited the code so as to prevent Kodi from choking on such characters.

Since I have not yet run across one of these types of names since the previous update, I intend to give a few more days for testing before I issue a pull request to the Kodi repo. If are of a mind to, please download the plugin from Code button on the main page (https://github.com/Botster/plugin.video.liveleak) and see if it works better for you.

[vecnar]

Thank you for making changes. Before update i couldn't see videos when trying to access page 5 under featured category. After updating it worked and i took a screenshot of page 5 in case it is off any benefit.

I looked through usernames for videos on page 5 and it is most likely the bellow one.

[Botster]

I think you are correct that it was the Writer on that particular video that the plugin could not handle.

With the helpful information you provided, I was able to successfully test it by going to Page 5 of the Featured category and finding that video. I now consider the issue fixed and will be issuing a pull request within the next few days.

Thank you!

[vecnar]

Glad that it helped and sorry for giving incorrect issue title

[Botster]

Not a problem. There was still an issue that needed to be looked at. I'm glad you reported it.