Handle Unicode for Incoming Keys

2014-11-10 07:08:04 +00:00
parent 7b36645eb2
commit b3e7516af7
2 changed files with 8 additions and 1 deletions
--- a/common/lib/xmodule/xmodule/video_module/video_handlers.py
+++ b/common/lib/xmodule/xmodule/video_module/video_handlers.py
@@ -55,7 +55,9 @@ class VideoStudentViewHandlers(object):

        if dispatch == 'save_user_state':
            for key in data:
-                if hasattr(self, key) and key in accepted_keys:
+                if type(key) == str:
+                    key = unicode(key, "UTF8")
+                if hasattr(self, key.encode('utf8')) and key in accepted_keys:
                    if key in conversions:
                        value = conversions[key](data[key])
                    else: