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[Sheel Rana <ranasheel2000@xxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

mysql database does not support 4 byte unicode due to its utf8 character
set.

If any operation is executed with 4byte unicode name, it reports 500 error without any proper error message to user.
This will be confusing for user as no information is present about why this issue occurred.

Please refer below for details:

nova secgroup-create sheel 🌋
ERROR (ClientException): Unexpected API Error. Please report this at http://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/ and attach the Nova API log if possible.
<class 'oslo_db.exception.DBError'> (HTTP 500) (Request-ID: req-a4eef1d6-11fa-4188-b116-ffdf728e04f4)


Bug can be reproduced by simply using 4byte unicode characters in name of security group.

This is 100% reproducible.

** Affects: nova
     Importance: Undecided
     Assignee: Sheel Rana (ranasheel2000)
         Status: New

** Changed in: nova
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Sheel Rana (ranasheel2000)

** Description changed:

  mysql database does not support 4 byte unicode due to its utf8 character
  set.
  
- If any operation is executed with 4byte unicode name, it reports 500 error without any proper error message to user. 
+ If any operation is executed with 4byte unicode name, it reports 500 error without any proper error message to user.
  This will be confusing for user as no information is present about why this issue occurred.
  
  Please refer below for details:
  
- nova secgroup-create sheel 🌋 
+ nova secgroup-create sheel 🌋
  ERROR (ClientException): Unexpected API Error. Please report this at http://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/ and attach the Nova API log if possible.
  <class 'oslo_db.exception.DBError'> (HTTP 500) (Request-ID: req-a4eef1d6-11fa-4188-b116-ffdf728e04f4)
+ 
+ 
+ Bug can be reproduced by simply using 4byte unicode characters in name of security group.
+ 
+ This is 100% reproducible.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1545729

Title:
  4 byte unicode handling for entity names

Status in OpenStack Compute (nova):
  New

Bug description:
  mysql database does not support 4 byte unicode due to its utf8
  character set.

  If any operation is executed with 4byte unicode name, it reports 500 error without any proper error message to user.
  This will be confusing for user as no information is present about why this issue occurred.

  Please refer below for details:

  nova secgroup-create sheel 🌋
  ERROR (ClientException): Unexpected API Error. Please report this at http://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/ and attach the Nova API log if possible.
  <class 'oslo_db.exception.DBError'> (HTTP 500) (Request-ID: req-a4eef1d6-11fa-4188-b116-ffdf728e04f4)

  
  Bug can be reproduced by simply using 4byte unicode characters in name of security group.

  This is 100% reproducible.

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