[OSM-dev] Error with API request to local server

[Matthias Brandt]

Andy Allan wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 10:27 AM, Tom Hughes <tom at compton.nu> wrote:
>   
>> Matthias Brandt wrote:
>>     
>>> The 3rd entry has an german umlaut, so I think libxml has problems with
>>> reading/processing UTF-8 chars. What can I do? Obviously, you don't have
>>> these problems at openstreetmap.org...
>>>       
>> No, but then our database has it's character encodings buggered up in
>> interesting ways...
>>
>> I assume that your database encoding is set to UTF-8?
>>
>> The next question is then how you got your data into the database? Did
>> you do it through rails? or with osmosis? or something else?
>>
>> One thing you may to try is adding "encoding: utf8" to the database
>> connection details in config/database.yml and seeing if that helps.
>>     
>
> Also, be careful with the command line mysql client. By default it'll
> connect to a utf8 database with a latin1 connection, so bona-fide utf8
> characters in a utf8 db viewed using mysql client on a utf8 aware
> terminal will (still) be borked. You need to supply
> --default-character-set=utf8 parameter.
>   
Nice to know, thank you. But the MySQL-Client is not my problem.
> Also also, I'd encourage you to try the 0.6 branch, since it's first
> where all the action is, and secondly there's unit tests in there for
> checking that the API can store utf8 characters correctly in the db.
> Running 'rake test:units' (or even just 'rake test') will let you know
> if there's a charset problem, which will help with the diagnosis.
>   
Thanks for the invitation :-). But I'm developing for my bachelor thesis 
an editor, so I have to rely on a stable API...
> One thing you may to try is adding "encoding: utf8" to the database
> connection details in config/database.yml and seeing if that helps.
That solved my first problem. Thank you!

Actually, I got hung up with the next problem. When trying to upload a 
new node via curl [1], I get "ActionController::UnknownAction (No action 
responded to create)" error page (404) [2] and an error log[3]. But the 
file node_controller.rb as well as the action "create" inside it exist.

FYI: I use Webrick as Webserver. Can this be the problem?

Matthias

[1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Using_curl_to_upload_data
[2] http://sprunge.us/aiZR
[3] http://sprunge.us/EbKW