Hi there,

I'm using Version 2.4.6-stable+timestamp.2013.05.17.14.52.19, Running on mac, Python 2.7.2, no external JSON library installed.

Sending the following data via PUT, application/json; charset=UTF-8:

{"id": 3}

results in a JSON parser error occurring at main.py:

    if is_json:

        try:

            logging.info('before') <--- my addition

            json_vars = sj.load(body)

            logging.info('after') <--- my addition

            body.seek(0)

        except Exception, e: <--- my addition

            logging.exception(e) <--- my addition

            # incoherent request bodies can still be parsed "ad-hoc"

            json_vars = {}

            pass

        # update vars and get_vars with what was posted as json

        request.get_vars.update(json_vars)

        request.vars.update(json_vars)

INFO     2013-05-24 00:07:21,100 main.py:337] before

INFO     2013-05-24 00:07:21,100 main.py:338] <module 'json' from '/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/json/__init__.py'>

ERROR    2013-05-24 00:07:21,100 main.py:346] No JSON object could be decoded

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/Projects/www/app/gluon/main.py", line 340, in parse_get_post_vars

    json_vars = sj.load(body)

  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/json/__init__.py", line 278, in load

    **kw)

  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/json/__init__.py", line 326, in loads

    return _default_decoder.decode(s)

  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/json/decoder.py", line 366, 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 384, in raw_decode

    raise ValueError("No JSON object could be decoded")

Appears to be related to the id() function for some reason, as changing the attribute name to anything other than "id" works fine. 

Help on built-in function id in module __builtin__:

id(...)

    id(object) -> integer

    Return the identity of an object.  This is guaranteed to be unique among

    simultaneously existing objects.  (Hint: it's the object's memory

    address.)

If I explicitly force it to use contrib.simplejson. i.e. change the top of main.py

try:

    import simplejson as sj #external installed library

except:

    try:

        import contrib.simplejson as sj #pure python library <--- Pasted.

    except:

        import contrib.simplejson as sj #pure python library

I get the same result.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance,

Matt

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