jira-cli cannot work well with linux/Mac pipe o/p

[philips-ni]

This is a handy tool!
In Linux/Mac, we use " | grep " a lot to do the filter work.
But while I tried to use jira-cli to filter the result, I see this error.

➜ ~ jira-cli list projects|grep -i web
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/jira-cli", line 11, in
load_entry_point('jira-cli==2.2', 'console_scripts', 'jira-cli')()
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/jiracli/interface.py", line 272, in cli
return post_args.cmd(jira, post_args).execute()
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/jiracli/processor.py", line 30, in execute
return self.eval()
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/jiracli/processor.py", line 121, in eval
val += " [" + colorfunc(item['key'], 'magenta') + "]"
TypeError: can only concatenate str (not "bytes") to str
➜ ~

[kyrrigle]

This is a python3 problem I suspect. The encode here is returning a bytes that then cannot be concatenated with strings later-

color = True
if not sys.stdout.isatty():
    colorfunc = lambda *a,**k:str(a[0]).encode('utf-8')
    color = False

a "fix" for that in python3 is to just remove the .encode('utf-8') part

[atsalolikhin-spokeo]

I tried this on macOS 11 (Big Sur) and couldn't duplicate the issue.

jira-cli list projects|grep -i web

This works fine! No python errors.

I suspect this issue is stale and can be closed.

[justinabrahms]

I see this issue on v2.2 and (just upgraded) 3.0.

It also triggers with output redirection. (e.g. > not just |)

Using python v3.

[justinabrahms]

Heads up, that this fixes it. bridge/init.py line ~116

            ret_str = colorfunc(issue["key"], status_color).decode('utf-8') + " " + issue.setdefault("summary", "") + " " + url_str.decode('utf-8')