From a9cb83449927600b149bd32a5efd693051298b37 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Fabio Manganiello <blacklight86@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2020 11:19:59 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Be more robust in case we receive non-Unicode characters on
the serial port
---
platypush/plugins/serial/__init__.py | 9 +++++++--
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/platypush/plugins/serial/__init__.py b/platypush/plugins/serial/__init__.py
index 9e3a34e3..99804111 100644
--- a/platypush/plugins/serial/__init__.py
+++ b/platypush/plugins/serial/__init__.py
@@ -36,8 +36,7 @@ class SerialPlugin(SensorPlugin):
self.serial_lock = threading.Lock()
self.last_measurement = None
- @staticmethod
- def _read_json(serial_port):
+ def _read_json(self, serial_port):
n_brackets = 0
is_escaped_ch = False
parse_start = False
@@ -48,6 +47,12 @@ class SerialPlugin(SensorPlugin):
if not ch:
break
+ try:
+ ch = ch.decode()
+ except Exception as e:
+ self.logger.warning('Could not decode character: {}'.format(str(e)))
+ output = bytes()
+
if ch.decode() == '{' and not is_escaped_ch:
parse_start = True
n_brackets += 1