Json error : "end is out of bounds"? - python

I'm having an issue I can't understand. I sending a json data as string via Redis (as a queue) and the receiver is throwing the following error :
[ERROR JSON (in queue)] - {"ip": null, "domain": "somedomain.com", "name": "Some user name", "contact_id": 12345, "signature":
"6f496a4eaba2c1ea4e371ea2c4951ad92f41ddf45ff4949ffa761b0648a22e38"} => end is out of bounds
The code that throws the exception is the following :
try:
item = json.loads(item[1])
except ValueError as e:
sys.stderr.write("[ERROR JSON (in queue)] - {1} => {0}\n".format(str(e), str(item)))
return None
What is really odd, is that if I open a python console and do the following :
>>> import json
>>> s = '{"ip": null, "domain": "somedomain.com", "name": "Some user name", "contact_id": 12345, "signature": "6f496a4eaba2c1ea4e371ea2c4951ad92f41ddf45ff4949ffa761b0648a22e38"}'
>>> print s
I have no issue, the string (copy/pasted in the Python console) yield no errors at all, but my original code is throwing one!
Do you have any idea about what is causing the issue?

You are loading item[1], which is the second character of the string items:
>>> json.loads('"')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/json/__init__.py", line 338, in loads
return _default_decoder.decode(s)
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/json/decoder.py", line 365, in decode
obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/json/decoder.py", line 381, in raw_decode
obj, end = self.scan_once(s, idx)
ValueError: end is out of bounds
You should write:
item = json.loads(item)

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python code running well locally but not in AWS EC2(ubuntu)

I'm trying to parse a website with the requests module on AWS EC2.
import requests
some_data = {'a':'',
'b':''}
with requests.Session() as s:
result = s.post('http://website.com',data=some_data)
print(result.text)
The page is responding as below:
{
"arrangetype":"U",
"list": [
{
"product_no":43,
"display_order":4,
"is_selling":"T",
"product_empty":"F",
"fix_position":null,
"is_auto_sort":false
},
{
"product_no":44,
"display_order":6,
"is_selling":"T",
"product_empty":"F",
"fix_position":null,
"is_auto_sort":false
}
],
"length":2
}
so I did as below thanks to Roadrunner's help(parsing and getting list from response of get request
)
import requests
from json import loads
some_data = {'a':'',
'b':''}
with requests.Session() as s:
result = s.post('http://website.com',data=some_data)
json_dict = loads(result.text)
print([x["product_no"] for x in json_dict["list"]])
It is perfectly working on local PC(windows10), but now i'm working on AWS EC2 to run the code, however, it occurs error.
The name of the file is timesale.py btw.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "timesale.py", line 657, in <module>
Timesale_Automation()
File "timesale.py", line 397, in Timesale_Automation
status_check()
File "timesale.py", line 345, in status_check
json_dict = loads(now_sale_page2.text)
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/json/__init__.py", line 354, in loads
return _default_decoder.decode(s)
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/json/decoder.py", line 339, in decode
obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/json/decoder.py", line 357, in raw_decode
raise JSONDecodeError("Expecting value", s, err.value) from None
json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)
I couldn't figure out why this error occurs.
I looked up overstackflow and there were some articles about decoding json but
result.text.decode('utf-8')
returns, I cannot decode str....
interestingly, I put print(result) between the codes and it is not 'None'
Why this would happen?

How to deserialize a string which has a quote in a string value?

I have the following string I need to deserialize:
{
"bw": 20,
"center_freq": 2437,
"channel": 6,
"essid": "DIRECT-sB47" Philips 6198",
"freq": 2437
}
This is almost a correct JSON, except for the quote in the value DIRECT-sB47" Philips 6198 which prematurely ends the string, breaking the rest of the JSON.
Is there a way to deserialize elements which have the pattern
"key": "something which includes a quote",
or should I try to first pre-process the string with a regex to remove that quote (I do not care about it, nor about any other weird characters in the keys or values)?
UPDATE: sorry for not posting the code (it is a standard deserialization via json). The code is also available at repl.it
import json
data = '''
{
"bw": 20,
"center_freq": 2437,
"channel": 6,
"essid": "DIRECT-sB47" Philips 6198",
"freq": 2437
}
'''
trans = json.loads(data)
print(trans)
The traceback:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "main.py", line 12, in <module>
trans = json.loads(data)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/json/__init__.py", line 354, in loads
return _default_decoder.decode(s)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/json/decoder.py", line 339, in decode
obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/json/decoder.py", line 355, in raw_decode
obj, end = self.scan_once(s, idx)
json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Expecting ',' delimiter: line 6 column 26 (char 79)
The same code without the quote works fine
import json
data = '''
{
"bw": 20,
"center_freq": 2437,
"channel": 6,
"essid": "DIRECT-sB47 Philips 6198",
"freq": 2437
}
'''
trans = json.loads(data)
print(trans)
COMMENT: I realize that the provider of the JSON should fix their code (I opened a bug report with them). In the meantime, until the bug is fixed (if it is) I would like to try a workaround.
I ended up analyzing the exception which includes the place of the faulty character, removing it and deserializing again (in a loop).
Worst case the whole data string is swallowed, which in my case is better than crashing.
import json
import re
data = '''
{
"bw": 20,
"center_freq": 2437,
"channel": 6,
"essid": "DIRECT-sB47" Philips 6198",
"freq": 2437
}
'''
while True:
try:
trans = json.loads(data)
except json.decoder.JSONDecodeError as e:
s = int(re.search(r"\.*char (\d+)", str(e)).group(1))-2
print(f"incorrect character at position {s}, removing")
data = data[:s] + data[(s + 1):]
else:
break
print(trans)

Can't access mqlread API

I am trying to access the mqlread API from Freebase but am getting a "Not Found" 404:
api_key = open("freebaseApiKey").read()
mqlread_url = 'https://www.googleapis.com/freebase/v1/mqlread'
mql_query = '[{"mid": null,"name": null, "type": "/location/statistical_region","limit": 100}]'
cursor = ""
topicService_url = 'https://www.googleapis.com/freebase/v1/topic'
params = {
'key': api_key,
'filter': '/location/statistical_region',
'limit': 0
}
for i in xrange(1000):
mql_url = mqlread_url + '?query=' + mql_query + "&cursor=" + cursor
print mql_url
statisticalRegionsResult = json.loads(urllib.urlopen(mql_url).read())
....
Obviously when I run my python file I get:
https://www.googleapis.com/freebase/v1/mqlread?query=[{"mid": null,"name": null, "type": "/location/statistical_region","limit": 100}]&cursor=
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "[Filepath]...FreeBaseDownload.py", line 37, in <module>
statisticalRegionsResult = json.loads(urllib.urlopen(mql_url).read())
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/json/__init__.py", line 307, in loads
return _default_decoder.decode(s)
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/json/decoder.py", line 319, in decode
obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/json/decoder.py", line 338, in raw_decode
raise ValueError("No JSON object could be decoded")
ValueError: No JSON object could be decoded
What am I doing wrong with the API? I've read things about mqlread being deprecated, what is the parallel for my quest to get all statistical regions (the mids) in Freebase?
It was deprecated over a year ago. It was finally shut down May 2.
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/freebase-discuss/WEnyO8f7xOQ
The only source for this information now is the Freebase data dump.
https://developers.google.com/freebase/#freebase-rdf-dumps

.json fie handling in python3

So, I've been trying to load a json file using json.load. It is the simplest, most basic code in the world but this is the error that is being thrown followed by the code and then a snippet of the .json file (in case there is a formatting issue):
Error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "first.py", line 8, in <module>
data = json.load(input_file)
File /usr/lib/python3.4/json/__init__.py", line 268, in load
parse_constant=parse_constant, object_pairs_hook=object_pairs_hook, **kw)
File "/usr/lib/python3.4/json/__init__.py", line 318, in loads
return _default_decoder.decode(s)
File "/usr/lib/python3.4/json/decoder.py", line 343, in decode
obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
File "/usr/lib/python3.4/json/decoder.py", line 361, in raw_decode
raise ValueError(errmsg("Expecting value", s, err.value)) from None
ValueError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)
Code:
import json
from pprint import pprint
input_file = open("chennai.recent.02dec2015.jsons",'r', encoding = 'UTF-8')
data = json.load(input_file)
pprint (data)
.json snippet:
{"contributors": null, "truncated": false, "text": "#Chennai Floods Leave Thousands Stranded, More Rain Expected For Coming Days #jobs #500K #: India has deployed... "is_quote_status": false, "in_reply_to_status_id": null, "id": 672203575703965696, "favorite_count": 0

JSON Parsing Error "NoneType object is not callable"?

Code:
body = '%s' % message.get_body()
logging.error(body)
parsed_body = json.loads(body)
Body contains:
[{u'content': u'Test\r\n', u'body_section': 1, u'charset': u'utf-8', u'type': u'text/plain'}, {u'content': u'Test\r\n', u'body_section': 2, u'charset': u'utf-8', u'type': u'text/html'}]
Error:
line 67, in get
parsed_body = json.loads(body)
File "C:\Python27\lib\json\__init__.py", line 326, in loads
return _default_decoder.decode(s)
File "C:\Python27\lib\json\decoder.py", line 366, in decode
obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
File "C:\Python27\lib\json\decoder.py", line 382, in raw_decode
obj, end = self.scan_once(s, idx)
File "C:\Python27\lib\json\decoder.py", line 38, in errmsg
lineno, colno = linecol(doc, pos)
TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not callable
Anybody know what's wrong?
body is a string (you get it with '%s' % ...), so it shouldn't contain Python string-encoding such as u'content'.
This means that either get_body() returns a complex object, and '%s' % ... is converting it into a python-output string which is not JSON, or something is already "fixing" the string when get_body returns it. The error is then elsewhere.
Example:
import json
# This is a correct JSON blob
body = '[{"content": "Test\\r\\n", "body_section": 1, "charset": "utf-8", "type": "text/plain"}, {"content": "Test\\r\\n", "body_section": 2
, "charset": "utf-8", "type": "text/html"}]'
# And this is a correct object
data = json.loads(body)
# If I were to print this object into a string, I would get
# [{u'content': u'Test\r\n', u'type': u'text/plain', u'charset'...
# and a subsequent json.load would fail.
# Remove the comment to check whether the error is the same (it is not on
# my system, but I'm betting it depends on JSON implementation and/or python version)
# body = '%s' % data
print body
print json.loads(body)

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