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[Manish Sinha <691167@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

** Description changed:

  In the event serialization format, the third array is array of bytes or
  ay as dbus signature.
  
  When an event enters an extension, it looks like
  Event([dbus.Array([u'', u'1292500628312', u'', u'', u'application://foo.desktop'], signature=dbus.Signature('s')), [Subject([u'', u'', u'', u'', u'', u'', u''])], dbus.Array([], signature=dbus.Signature('y'))])
  
  which implies that payload is array of bytes
  
  Now look at _zeitgeist/engine/datamodel.py at line 58
  where you get the line
  >> popo.append(str(ev[2]))
  
  Really so when you do str() on dbus.Array([], signature=dbus.Signature('y'))
  you get "dbus.Array([], signature=dbus.Signature('y'))" instead of the contents of bytes converted to string
  
- 
- Now when you call Event.get_plain on 
+ Now when you call Event.get_plain on
  
  Event([dbus.Array([u'', u'1292500628312', u'', u'',
  u'application://foo.desktop'], signature=dbus.Signature('s')),
  [Subject([u'', u'', u'', u'', u'', u'', u''])], dbus.Array([],
  signature=dbus.Signature('y'))])
  
  you get
  
  [[u'', u'1292500628312', u'', u'', u'application://foo.desktop'], [[u'',
  u'', u'', u'', u'', u'', u'']], "dbus.Array([],
  signature=dbus.Signature('y'))"]
  
- Now what you expect
+ Not what you expect

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/691167

Title:
  The payload is sometimes mentioned as string and sometimes as array of bytes

Status in Zeitgeist Framework:
  New

Bug description:
  In the event serialization format, the third array is array of bytes or ay as dbus signature.

When an event enters an extension, it looks like
Event([dbus.Array([u'', u'1292500628312', u'', u'', u'application://foo.desktop'], signature=dbus.Signature('s')), [Subject([u'', u'', u'', u'', u'', u'', u''])], dbus.Array([], signature=dbus.Signature('y'))])

which implies that payload is array of bytes

Now look at _zeitgeist/engine/datamodel.py at line 58
where you get the line
>> popo.append(str(ev[2]))

Really so when you do str() on dbus.Array([], signature=dbus.Signature('y'))
you get "dbus.Array([], signature=dbus.Signature('y'))" instead of the contents of bytes converted to string

Now when you call Event.get_plain on

Event([dbus.Array([u'', u'1292500628312', u'', u'', u'application://foo.desktop'], signature=dbus.Signature('s')), [Subject([u'', u'', u'', u'', u'', u'', u''])], dbus.Array([], signature=dbus.Signature('y'))])

you get

[[u'', u'1292500628312', u'', u'', u'application://foo.desktop'], [[u'', u'', u'', u'', u'', u'', u'']], "dbus.Array([], signature=dbus.Signature('y'))"]

Not what you expect