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From: grdft
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82439.1
Date: 03/22/2009 13:58:32
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When getting teaminfo (teaminfo.aspx) for a team where the owner has a '&' character in his name, the '&' is not properly encoded, meaning the whole xml structure is invalid.
See for example (77845)

Last edited by Mod-oeuftete at 03/22/2009 14:22:11

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82439.2 in reply to 82439.1
Date: 03/22/2009 14:37:09
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FWIW, here's a confirmation.


ken@chort:~$ perl -MKGC::BB -le 'my $bb = KGC::BB->new(); 
$bb->debug(1); $bb->teaminfo( {params => {teamid => 77845} } );'
Sending [http://www.buzzerbeater.com/BBAPI/teaminfo.aspx?teamid=77845]

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<bbapi version='1'>
    <team id='77845' retrieved='2009-03-22T18:34:18Z'>
        <teamName>Carxofa Team</teamName>
        <shortName>CAR</shortName>
        
        <owner supporter='1'>j&j23</owner>
        
        <league id='203' level='3'>III.8</league>
        <country id='7'>España</country>
    </team>
</bbapi>

not well-formed (invalid token) at line 7, column 34, byte 240 at 
/usr/lib/perl5/XML/Parser.pm line 187
 at /home/ken/modules/BuzzerBeater/Teaminfo.pm line 36


Last edited by Mod-oeuftete at 03/22/2009 14:37:32

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82439.3 in reply to 82439.2
Date: 03/22/2009 14:44:39
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Yes, so far I've encountered something like 10-20 (didn't count exactly) cases such as this.
This is quite embarassing : since they can't be parsed with a compliant XML parser, they're missed by my programs, meanings I have holes in my data.
And since the data is not encoded, there may be other characters that are bad, such as '<'.

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82439.4 in reply to 82439.3
Date: 03/22/2009 14:52:29
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I'm guessing it was just a bad or overlooked assumption that the username might need to be escaped. I expect that Dr. Jàn will fix it in short order if he still has the necessary access.

Last edited by Mod-oeuftete at 03/22/2009 14:53:03

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82439.5 in reply to 82439.4
Date: 03/22/2009 14:55:40
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That would be great !
Thanks in advance Dr Jan !

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82439.6 in reply to 82439.4
Date: 08/26/2012 16:57:52
cinomusoj
III.4
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cinomusoj II
Is this bug fixed ?
I have same problem with (188814).
I get <owner >夏爷&天哥</owner>, which is not valid.

Last edited by wamba at 08/26/2012 17:45:25

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82439.7 in reply to 82439.6
Date: 05/20/2015 10:55:02
TrenseRI
II.3
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ChiLeaders
If it wasn't (I realize this is an old thread), it will be shortly.

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82439.8 in reply to 82439.7
Date: 05/20/2015 11:07:45
UJAP Kemper 29
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As you seems really active on BBAPI bugfix.
I have another small one: character <'> is badly encoded. Exemple http://bbapi.buzzerbeater.com/teaminfo.aspx?teamid=86024

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82439.9 in reply to 82439.8
Date: 05/21/2015 12:09:34
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82439.10 in reply to 82439.9
Date: 05/21/2015 13:26:47
UJAP Kemper 29
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Thanks !