[rt-users] Scripting ticket creation with fields containing non-alphanumeric characters.

[Green, Jesse]

I'm very new to RT and am trying to write a python script to create a ticket in my RT database.  The crux of my problem lies in non-alphanumeric characters.  Submitting the ticket works fine with all the fields that have only alphanumeric characters, but I have some fields with non-alphanumeric characters and those submissions return to me "Error 409 Syntax Error".

I am using python-rtkit to work with REST from my script.  To try and solve this problem I have corresponded with the person who maintains python-rtkit to make sure that it wasn't a bug in python-rtkit or my misuse of the module (https://github.com/z4r/python-rtkit/issues/31 , you can find a copy of my script in this thread for reference).  The conclusion reached at the end of that discussion was that I would need to upgrade my install of RT from its current version of 3.6.6 to 4.x.  However  I have discovered from my superior (who is in charge of our install of RT) that that isn't an option.

After I tried that I tried to poke around and find some documentation on Error 409 but was unable to find any documentation of RT's errors anywhere but WAS able to find a  correspondence for a similar issue (http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/rt/users/95179?search_string=REST%20syntax;#95179) unfortunately it is for a different version of RT (3.8.x) and the suggested fix involved a line in REST.pm that doesn't exist in my install of RT.  Which brings me to posting in this mailing list.

I'm wondering if there's a fix similar to the other one posted in the mailing list (see second link in this post) for RT3.6.6 that I can use to enable the creation of tickets via an external script without having to upgrade RT or remove those special characters

I'm using RTv3.6.6 and the server is on Red Hat 4.1.2-54 and Apache 2.2.3.  If you need any additional details, please ask.
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