Sometimes I feel stupid...

I thought I'd refactor my Python class for accessing Project Place via its REST API using the purportedly more human Requests. A bit of reading and a bit of prodding and poking suggests that when it comes to OAuth, everything sucks, including Requests.

After a bit of faffing with the refactoring, I yanked the bare minimum of code into a single file. No subroutines or classes. Not a single indent:

import requests

consumer_key        = "that"
consumer_secret     = "would"
access_token_key    = "be"
access_token_secret = "telling!"

auth = requests.auth.OAuth1(consumer_key,
                            consumer_secret,
                            access_token_key,
                            access_token_secret,
                            signature_type='auth_header')

r = requests.get('https://api.projectplace.com/1/user/me/profile.json', auth=auth)

For my trouble, I get:

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/Users/bob/Dropbox/Coding/Python/ProjectPlace (requests)/requests_test.py", line 19, in

    r = requests.get('https://api.projectplace.com/1/user/me/profile.json', auth=auth)

  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests/api.py", line 65, in get

    return request('get', url, **kwargs)

  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests/safe_mode.py", line 39, in wrapped

    return function(method, url, **kwargs)

  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests/api.py", line 51, in request

    return session.request(method=method, url=url, **kwargs)

  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 241, in request

    r.send(prefetch=prefetch)

  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests/models.py", line 521, in send

    r = self.auth(self)

  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests/auth.py", line 102, in __call__

    unicode(r.full_url), unicode(r.method), r.data, r.headers)

  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests/packages/oauthlib/oauth1/rfc5849/__init__.py", line 213, in sign

    request.oauth_params.append((u'oauth_signature', self.get_oauth_signature(request)))

  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests/packages/oauthlib/oauth1/rfc5849/__init__.py", line 65, in get_oauth_signature

    uri, headers, body = self._render(request)

  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests/packages/oauthlib/oauth1/rfc5849/__init__.py", line 135, in _render

    headers = parameters.prepare_headers(request.oauth_params, request.headers)

  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests/packages/oauthlib/oauth1/rfc5849/utils.py", line 28, in wrapper

    return target(params, *args, **kwargs)

  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests/packages/oauthlib/oauth1/rfc5849/parameters.py", line 55, in prepare_headers

    escaped_value = utils.escape(value)

  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests/packages/oauthlib/oauth1/rfc5849/utils.py", line 52, in escape

    raise ValueError('Only unicode objects are escapable.')

ValueError: Only unicode objects are escapable.

And Googling doesn't really help. I discovered that the OAuth part of Requests is being pulled out into a separate package/project. I tried 'pip'ing it, but it's not available yet.  Sigh.

I should probably mention that:

import requests
print requests.get('https://www.google.com').content

Works perfectly well. It's the OAuth stuff that appears to be FUBAR.