first_pass_api returns error

[valearna]

@draciti This is related to the issue with 00065682 (authors submitted data but the form is blank). @azurebrd the first_pass_api.cgi form for this paper returns a blank page and I can see this error in the apache error log:

Uncaught exception from user code: Wide character at /usr/lib/pub/cgi-bin/forms/textpresso/first_pass_api.cgi line 72. main::jsonPaper(00065682) called at /usr/lib/pub/cgi-bin/forms/textpresso/first_pass_api.cgi line 52 main::process() called at /usr/lib/pub/cgi-bin/forms/textpresso/first_pass_api.cgi line 46

Can you take a look at this @azurebrd ?

[azurebrd]

@draciti @valearna This was taking data from the database and decoding to utf-8 before passing it, and that's failing because of the Wide character in the database. I don't know why we were decoding it, or what the output of this is used for. I've stopped decoding it, and it doesn't fail anymore, but I don't know if that's going to cause other failures downstream.

[valearna]

Thanks @azurebrd, I've checked a few papers and everything seems to be fine now.

[azurebrd]

@valearna great !

[draciti]

thanks @azurebrd and @valearna !