Fixes

couchpotato/core/_base/_core/main.py

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ from couchpotato.core.plugins.base import Plugin
 from couchpotato.environment import Env
 from flask import request
 import os
+import thread
 import time
 import traceback
 import webbrowser
@@ -40,21 +41,24 @@ class Core(Plugin):
 
     def monitorParent(self):
 
-        do_shutdown = False
+        def looping():
-        while 1 and not self.shuttingDown():
+            do_shutdown = False
-            if os.name == 'nt':
+            while 1 and not self.shuttingDown():
-                if os.getppid(os.getpid()) <= 1:
+                if os.name == 'nt':
-                    do_shutdown = True
+                    if os.getppid(os.getpid()) <= 1:
-                    break
+                        do_shutdown = True
-            else:
+                        break
-                if os.getppid() <= 1:
+                else:
-                    do_shutdown = True
+                    if os.getppid() <= 1:
-                    break
+                        do_shutdown = True
-            time.sleep(1)
+                        break
+                time.sleep(1)
 
-        if do_shutdown:
+            if do_shutdown:
-            log.info('Starterscript has shutdown, shutdown subprocess')
+                log.info('Starterscript has shutdown, shutdown subprocess')
-            fireEvent('app.crappy_shutdown')
+                fireEvent('app.crappy_shutdown')
+
+        thread.start_new_thread(looping, ())
 
     def md5Password(self, value):
         return md5(value) if value else ''

couchpotato/core/helpers/encoding.py

@@ -22,11 +22,17 @@ def toUnicode(original, *args):
         if type(original) is unicode:
             return original
         else:
-            return unicode(original, *args)
+            try:
+                return unicode(original, *args)
+            except:
+                try:
+                    return ek(original, *args)
+                except:
+                    raise
     except UnicodeDecodeError:
         log.error('Unable to decode value: %s... ' % repr(original)[:20])
         ascii_text = str(original).encode('string_escape')
-        return unicode(ascii_text)
+        return toUnicode(ascii_text)
 
 def ek(original, *args):
     if type(original) in [str, unicode]:
@@ -34,7 +40,7 @@ def ek(original, *args):
             from couchpotato.environment import Env
             return original.decode(Env.get('encoding'))
         except UnicodeDecodeError:
-            return toUnicode(original, *args)
+            raise
 
     return original
 

couchpotato/core/plugins/base.py

@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ class Plugin(object):
                 log.error("Something went wrong when finishing the plugin function. Could not find the 'is_running' key")
 
 
-    def getCache(self, cache_key, url = None):
+    def getCache(self, cache_key, url = None, timeout = 300):
         cache = Env.get('cache').get(cache_key)
         if cache:
             if not Env.setting('development'): log.debug('Getting cache %s' % cache_key)
@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ class Plugin(object):
         if url:
             try:
                 data = self.urlopen(url)
-                self.setCache(cache_key, data)
+                self.setCache(cache_key, data, timeout = timeout)
                 return data
             except:
                 pass

couchpotato/core/plugins/scanner/main.py

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 from couchpotato import get_session
 from couchpotato.core.event import fireEvent, addEvent
-from couchpotato.core.helpers.encoding import toUnicode, simplifyString, ek
+from couchpotato.core.helpers.encoding import toUnicode, simplifyString
 from couchpotato.core.helpers.variable import getExt, getImdb, tryInt
 from couchpotato.core.logger import CPLog
 from couchpotato.core.plugins.base import Plugin
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ class Scanner(Plugin):
         # Scan all files of the folder if no files are set
         if len(files) == 0:
             files = []
-            for root, dirs, walk_files in os.walk(ek(folder)):
+            for root, dirs, walk_files in os.walk(toUnicode(folder)):
                 for filename in walk_files:
                     files.append(os.path.join(root, filename))