JSON error with Julia Dash simple example - csv

I've been trying to replicate the "A simple example" posted at https://dash-julia.plotly.com/clientside-callbacks
The server runs... but when I connect to it I get a JSON parse error in Firefox.
I was able to solve the problem, but I'd like to understand what's wrong...
The problem was this line inside the Dash app.layout:
options=[(label = country, value = country) for country in available_countries]
and the available_countries variable was obatined from:
read_remote_csv(url) = DataFrame(CSV.File(HTTP.get(url).body))
df = read_remote_csv("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/plotly/datasets/master/gapminderDataFiveYear.csv")
available_countries = unique(df.country)
Apparently the error showed because available_countries was an Array{String31,1}: and specifically the problem was the String31 type.
when I converted the variable to a plain String type:
available_countries = convert(Array{String,1},available_countries)
the problem solved.
Now... I'm not sure if the String31 type came from the HTTP.get(), CSV.File() or the DataFrame() functions.
I'm assuming the example used to work when it was originally written but it broke with an update...
Can anyone explain where exactly the error originates? Is it a Package version thing? which package? (HTTP, CSV, Dataframes)? How can I avoid it moving on?

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Accesing Json data after 'loading' it

With a lot of help from people in this site, I managed to get some Json data from an amazon page. The data, for example, looks like this.
https://jsoneditoronline.org/?id=9ea92643044f4ac88bcc3e76d98425fc
First I have a list of strings which is converted to a string.
script = response.xpath('//script/text()').extract()
#For example, I need the variationValues data
variationValues = re.findall(r'variationValues\" : ({.*?})', ' '.join(script))[0]
Then, in my code, I have this (not a great name, will be changed later)
variationValuesJson = json.loads(variationValues)
variationValuesJson is in fact a dictionary, so doing something like this
variationValues["size_name"][3]
Should return "5.5 M US"
My issue is that, when running the program, I get the string indices must be integers error. Anyone knows whats wrong?
Note: I have tried using 'size_name' instead of "size_name", same error
variationValues["size_name"][3] #this is the raw string which you have converted to variationValuesjson
I think this is not what you actually want.
Your code should be this.
variationValuesJson['size_name'][3] #use variationValuesjson ;)

Badly Formed hexadecimal uuid string error in Django fixture; json uuid conversion fails issue

File "/home/malikarumi/Projects/cannon/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/models/fields/__init__.py", line 2390, in get_db_prep_value
value = uuid.UUID(value)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/uuid.py", line 134, in __init__
raise ValueError('badly formed hexadecimal UUID string')
ValueError: Problem installing fixture '/home/malikarumi/Projects/cannon/jamf/essell/fixtures/test22byhand.json': badly formed hexadecimal UUID string
I've found the following links so far:
https://github.com/dcramer/django-uuidfield/issues/40
https://github.com/dcramer/django-uuidfield/commit/caae1bc4e45445a06dd11bb22da6a9f07395f78a
Django UUIDField modelfield causes error in Django admin: badly formed hexadecimal UUID string
Django Primary Key: badly formed hexadecimal UUID string
I counted my uuidfield value. It is len=36, because it has dashes in it. At least the string representation I can see is that way. So I replaced it with the same alphanumeric without dashes, as suggested as a test by the bugfix, but I still got the same result.
I checked the model, but there is no max length on any uuid field, nor on the fk link back to the uuid. There's nothing on the fk to suggest it is, or should be limited to, chars, ints, uuids, etc.
Then I found this: http://arthurpemberton.com/2015/04/fixing-uuid-is-not-json-serializable which I hacked into /python2.7/site-packages/django/core/serializers/python.py. The blogger had put it into models.py. But I got the same error, before realizing it was NOT coming from serializers/python.py, as it was yesterday, but from /usr/lib/python2.7/uuid.py, line 134, in init. the relevant portions of that code are:
if hex is not None:
hex = hex.replace('urn:', '').replace('uuid:', '')
hex = hex.strip('{}').replace('-', '')
if len(hex) != 32:
raise ValueError('badly formed hexadecimal UUID string')
int = long(hex, 16)
Rather than try to hack more core code, given that the indication is the problem is json, not Python, I left this alone for now.
Finally, I looked at this:
https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/24012
It is stated a couple of times here that Django's "UUIDField generates UUIDs in Python". Now here is some history. I created one row, a single instance of Model A into Django with a fixture that had no uuid and no datefield and had no issues. (The uuidfield is on an abstract model, so it is created when the object is created). I did that because I needed the uuid of that Model A instance for a fk field in Model B, which is the one I am struggling with now. I did that by copy pasting the Model A uuid into the fk field on Model B in a csv file which I then converted to json in order to use it as a fixture.
Is it possible that the uuid ran into problems in this copy paste maneuver, before the conversion to json?
If not, that means even though it was an acceptable Python object when it was created, going thru the json conversion messed it up, correct?
If that's the case, what is a workaround?
Can the Arthur Pemberton code be made to work somewhere else in this process?
If I leave the uuid off, I can probably make this work, but then I have to go back and put the all the fk uuid's in manually. Is there a better solution? Maybe a bulk insert of that field alone?
This may be a recurring issue for me, because I am also using Scrapy, which supports but does not require json. None of my scraped items will come with uuid, but how do I automate adding their fk's into my process in order to get them into Django?
Or is all of this a good reason to forget uuids altogether?
Thanks.
EDIT/UPDATE per #rolf:
Since I just discovered that the django shell differs more than I realized (the shell can find settings, the regular interpreter can't) I decided to run this once in each one, but the results were the same.
(cannon)malikarumi#Tetuoan2:~/Projects/cannon/jamf$ python manage.py shell
Python 2.7.10 (default, Oct 14 2015, 16:09:02)
IPython 4.0.3 -- An enhanced Interactive Python.
In [1]: uuid.UUID(a82857b6-e336-4c6c-8499-47601770b39d)
File "<ipython-input-1-e282858da374>", line 1
uuid.UUID(a82857b6-e336-4c6c-8499-47601770b39d)
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
In [2]: uuid.UUID(a0a69415-6627-43db-8c7a-b57d0c4cefe2)
File "<ipython-input-2-befebf1573ba>", line 1
uuid.UUID(a0a69415-6627-43db-8c7a-b57d0c4cefe2)
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
In [3]: uuid.UUID(e6e11b06-ea3b-4e98-a31f-9a83447ad884)
File "<ipython-input-3-a59ea095e61a>", line 1
uuid.UUID(e6e11b06-ea3b-4e98-a31f-9a83447ad884)
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
In [4]: uuid.UUID(bd116432-65d7-4612-abfe-9a99dcaf5cad)
File "<ipython-input-4-c4a04434aa3c>", line 1
uuid.UUID(bd116432-65d7-4612-abfe-9a99dcaf5cad)
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
Now that I have posted this, I notice that even Stack Overflow treats these uuid differently, i.e., the way they are colored, if that's relevant and meaningful here.
But now that we know this, what do we do with / about it?
2nd Update
This morning I thought, what about a uuid that had never been anywhere but in Django? So here's what I did:
In [5]: e.uuid
Out[5]: UUID('61877565-5fe5-4175-9f2b-d24704df0b74')
In [6]: uuid.UUID(61877565-5fe5-4175-9f2b-d24704df0b74)
File "<ipython-input-6-56137f5f4eb6>", line 1
uuid.UUID(61877565-5fe5-4175-9f2b-d24704df0b74)
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
In [7]: uuid.UUID('61877565-5fe5-4175-9f2b-d24704df0b74')
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
NameError Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-7-3b4d3e5bd156> in <module>()
----> 1 uuid.UUID('61877565-5fe5-4175-9f2b-d24704df0b74')
NameError: name 'uuid' is not defined
This is apparently because I left the quote around the alphanumeric, but why that would generate a uuid not defined error, instead of 'string type' or some such error is beyond me.
In [8]: uuid.UUID(61877565-5fe5-4175-9f2b-d24704df0b74)
File "<ipython-input-8-56137f5f4eb6>", line 1
uuid.UUID(61877565-5fe5-4175-9f2b-d24704df0b74)
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
The first time I keyed in the characters by hand. I decided to repeat the test by copying and pasting, but as you can see, it made no difference. If there was something weird about the way only the 5 that the caret is pointing to was generated, we might be on to something, but if so, why do I get the same error in the same place when I typed it in by hand myself?
This no longer seems like a json issue to me, since – as far as I know – json has never touched this uuid, unless it did somehow in the internal workings of Django.
Instead, there is either
1. something wrong with the way uuid.UUID generates uuids, or
2. the way it generates them on my system, (Ubuntu 15.10, Django 1.9.1, Python 2.7.10) or
3. the way it reads and evaluates them when they come back, like in uuid.UUID() or being input outside the internal, automatic uuid generation process.
But that also means people using uuid.UUID() to generate uuids will never know there is an issue unless they do what I did, which is try to bring them in from outside. I remember reading somewhere that all uuids are supposed to be compatible. So, unless someone here has a better insight, I think we might be up for a bug report. But is it a Python bug, a Django bug, or both?
Your syntax is wrong:
uuid.UUID('61877565-5fe5-4175-9f2b-d24704df0b74') # note the quotes

How to use the key values of a prolog dict in a predicate?

I have a simple question which I'm getting a lot of trouble finding an answer.
I'm building an api that reads json and at the moment it successfully converts the json to a dict with http_read_json_dict. The problem is that, I have no clue how to access the attributes inside the dict and use that that data in a predicate. I tried following the swi-prolog documentation but to no avail... Do you guys know of a way?
I tried this to test read the content of the dict but I get a "key_value expected, found a dict" error. Please don't burn me at the stake:
json contains: [{"task":"learnprolog","dayofmonth":2}]
http_read_json_dict(Request, JSONIn,[json_object(term)]),
X = JSONIn,
format(user_output,"task is: ~p~n",[X.task]),
JSONOut=JSONIn.
But i was really hoping to do something like:
predicate(X):- X.dayofmonth==2,doSomething(X.task);doSomethingElse(X.task).
Thanks a lot for the help!
not sure about the details, without a server setup similar to what you're using... but
?- open_codes_stream(`[{"task":"learnprolog","dayofmonth":"2"}]`,S),json_read_dict(S,[J]),close(S),write(J.dayofmonth).
2
S = <stream>(0x7f5f14304dd0),
J = _G15591{dayofmonth:"2", task:"learnprolog"}.
note the square brackets around J

R - Twitter Extraction - Error in .subset2(x, i, exact=exact)

I am making an R-script to get all of the mentions (#username) of a specific set of users.
My first issue isn't a big deal. I try to work at home, as well as work. At work, the code works fine. At home, I get Error 32 - Could not authenticate you from Oauth. This is using the exact same code, key, secret, token. I have tried resetting my secret key/token, same thing. Not a problem, since I can do remote login, but its frustrating.
The REAL issue here...
I construct a URL (ex: final_url = "https://api.twitter.com/1.1/search/tweets.json?q=#JimFKenney&until=2015-10-25&result_type=recent&count=100")
Then I search twitter for my query of #usernameDesired to get all the comments where they were mentioned.
mentions = GET(final_url, sig)
This works fine, but then I want my data in a usable format so I do...
library(rjson)
#install.packages("jsonlite", repos="http://cran.rstudio.com/")
library(jsonlite)
#install.packages("bit64", repos="http://cran.rstudio.com/")
json = content(mentions)
I then get the following error -
$statuses
Error in .subset2(x, i, exact = exact) : subscript out of bounds
I don't have even the first idea of what can be causing this.
Any help is gratly appreciated.
EDIT 1: For Clarity, I get the error when trying to see what is in json. If I do "json = content(mentions)" that line of code executes fine. I then type "json" to see what is in the variable, and I get the above error that starts with $statuses.

XBMC GetInfoLabels command not working

got a quick question about the JSON XBMC API. I want to use the GetInfoLabels command to get a lot of information about the system on my webpage. But I can't figure out how this command works. I tried the following
http://192.168.5.34/jsonrpc?request={"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":"1","method":"XBMC.GetInfoLabels","params":["Network.IPAddress","Network.MacAddress"]}
But then I get this output
{"error":{"code":-32602,"data":{"method":"XBMC.GetInfoLabels","stack":{"message":"Invalid type string received","name":"labels","type":"array"}},"message":"Invalid params."},"id":"1","jsonrpc":"2.0"}
So the error is "Invalid type string received" but I can't get it to work. I tried only 1 label, without the quotes, between extra {}, ... Most of them give a "Parse errro" so I think this is the best I could get it. ANy one got an idea how to use this command?
Thanks
Ok, after a lot of research it seems I had to make an object of an array of labels. So this is the working solution
http://192.168.5.34/jsonrpc?request={"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"XBMC.GetInfoLabels","params":{"labels": ["Network.IPAddress","Network.MacAddress"] },"id":1}
As a result you get the IP and MAC from the XBMC system.