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Error when recording SQL queries that are byte-strings

Open ahardjasa opened this issue 8 years ago • 5 comments

When a byte-string SQL query is run, e.g. those produced by psycopg2.execute_values, I get the error TypeError: startswith first arg must be bytes or a tuple of bytes, not str.

This seems to be a result of line 142 in django-debug-toolbar/debug_toolbar/panels/sql/tracking.py: 'is_select': sql.lower().strip().startswith('select') since 'select' is unicode.

Flask-debugtoolbar addressed this with prefix = b'select' if isinstance(statement, bytes) else 'select' - would that work in this case?

ahardjasa avatar Aug 24 '17 23:08 ahardjasa

The DB API 2.0 PEP (https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0249/) does not mandate a type for the SQL operation -- whether it's bytes or str isn't defined (which isn't surprising at all since the PEP was added at least 17 years ago).

Still, I'm a bit reluctant because I fear breakage throughout; is this really all that's required to support byte string queries? Should we even support byte string queries at all?

matthiask avatar Aug 25 '17 08:08 matthiask

I'm OK with that change.

aaugustin avatar Aug 26 '17 13:08 aaugustin

Great. @ahardjasa do you want to submit a pull request?

matthiask avatar Aug 28 '17 09:08 matthiask

Same problem for Django raw SQL queries such as:

with connection.cursor() as cursor:
            cursor.execute(
                sql.SQL(
                    '''
                    SELECT json_build_object(
                        'data', array_agg(r)
                    )
                    FROM (
                        SELECT
                        a,
                        {}
                        FROM b
                        WHERE c=%s
                        ORDER BY a DESC
                        LIMIT %s
                    ) r
                    '''
                ).format(var),
                [x, 5]
            )
            result = cursor.fetchall()

thaxy avatar Nov 03 '17 09:11 thaxy

This appears to be a problem for me as well. I'm not sure if this should be broken off into a different issue ticket?

I'm storing binary image thumbnails, and it works fine when I am not running django debug toolbar, but as soon as I enable DDT, a bit of chaos occurs.

With it enabled, Django can not store, read, or manipulate the binary fields. Everything else works fine, but the binary fields do not work.

bschollnick avatar Apr 01 '18 12:04 bschollnick

Is this still a problem? Looking around I found this test (in tests/panels/test_sql.py) and it seems to catch this use case:

def test_non_ascii_query(self):
        ...
        # non-ASCII bytes parameters
        list(Binary.objects.filter(field__in=["café".encode()]))
        self.assertEqual(len(self.panel._queries), 3)
        ...

Caiofcas avatar Jun 14 '23 22:06 Caiofcas

@Caiofcas Thank you! If I'm reading this issue correctly it is about the whole SQL string being bytes which is different from the test where (only) a parameter is bytes.

matthiask avatar Jun 15 '23 05:06 matthiask

I just got this with the latest version, 4.1.0. This line in psycopg2.extras.execute_values causes it to execute a query of type bytes.

utting this in a view alone will raise the issue when the toolbar is active:

from django.db import connection

with connection.cursor() as cursor:
    cursor.execute(b'SELECT 1')

Lucidiot avatar Jul 06 '23 14:07 Lucidiot

@Lucidiot It seems nobody is actively working on this right now. Does the proposed fix in the initial report make everything work as it should? It would be very helpful if you could check this and maybe submit a pull request with a small test case. Thanks in advance!

matthiask avatar Jul 06 '23 15:07 matthiask

@Lucidiot I could also potentially take a look in the next couple of days if you don't have time to get a PR together.

living180 avatar Jul 06 '23 16:07 living180

I found that I was hitting an error in another place, before the code originally mentioned in this issue could even be called, so I fixed that instead and now the query seems to always be a string by the time it reaches the is_select of the initial report.

Lucidiot avatar Jul 07 '23 08:07 Lucidiot