Added unicode handling for author names. They will now be properly encoded into the byte stream, as well as decoded from it

Author: Byron

doc/source/changes.rst

@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@
 Changelog
 =========
 
+0.3.0 Beta 3
+============
+* Added unicode support for author names. Commit.author.name is now unicode instead of string.
+
 0.3.0 Beta 2
 ============
 * Added python 2.4 support

lib/git/objects/commit.py

@@ -368,9 +368,14 @@ def _serialize(self, stream):
 			write("parent %s\n" % p)
 
 		a = self.author
+		aname = a.name
+		if isinstance(aname, unicode):
+			aname = aname.encode(self.encoding)
+		# END handle unicode in name
+		
 		c = self.committer
 		fmt = "%s %s <%s> %s %s\n"
-		write(fmt % ("author", a.name, a.email, 
+		write(fmt % ("author", aname, a.email, 
 						self.authored_date, 
 						altz_to_utctz_str(self.author_tz_offset)))
 
@@ -425,12 +430,19 @@ def _deserialize(self, stream):
 			readline()
 		# END handle encoding
 
+		# decode the authors name
+		try:
+			self.author.name = self.author.name.decode(self.encoding) 
+		except UnicodeDecodeError:
+			print >> sys.stderr, "Failed to decode author name: %s" % self.author.name
+		# END handle author's encoding
+		
 		# a stream from our data simply gives us the plain message
 		# The end of our message stream is marked with a newline that we strip
 		self.message = stream.read()
 		try:
 			self.message = self.message.decode(self.encoding)
-		except Exception:
+		except UnicodeDecodeError:
 			print >> sys.stderr, "Failed to decode message: %s" % self.message
 		# END exception handling 
 		return self

test/git/test_commit.py

@@ -242,3 +242,32 @@ def test_serialization(self, rwrepo):
 		# create all commits of our repo
 		assert_commit_serialization(rwrepo, '0.1.6')
 
+	def test_serialization_unicode_support(self):
+		assert Commit.default_encoding.lower() == 'utf-8'
+		
+		# create a commit with unicode in the message, and the author's name
+		# Verify its serialization and deserialization
+		cmt = self.rorepo.commit('0.1.6')
+		assert isinstance(cmt.message, unicode)		# it automatically decodes it as such
+		assert isinstance(cmt.author.name, unicode)	# same here
+		
+		cmt.message = "üäêèß".decode("utf-8")
+		assert len(cmt.message) == 5
+		
+		cmt.author.name = "äüß".decode("utf-8")
+		assert len(cmt.author.name) == 3
+		
+		cstream = StringIO()
+		cmt._serialize(cstream)
+		cstream.seek(0)
+		assert len(cstream.getvalue())
+		
+		ncmt = Commit(self.rorepo, cmt.binsha)
+		ncmt._deserialize(cstream)
+		
+		assert cmt.author.name == ncmt.author.name
+		assert cmt.message == ncmt.message
+		# actually, it can't be printed in a shell as repr wants to have ascii only
+		# it appears
+		cmt.author.__repr__()
+