Question

I’m trying to decode JSON output of a Java program (jackson) and having some issues.
The cause of the problem is the following snippet:

{
    "description": "... lives\uMOVE™ OFFERS ",
}

Which causes ValueError: Invalid \uXXXX escape.

Any ideas on how to fix this?

EDIT: The output is from an Avro file, the Avro package uses jackson to emit records as JSON.
EDIT2: After poking about in the source files, it might be the case that the JSON is constructed manually (sorry jackson).

Answer 1

This is a known bug in Avro versions < 1.6.0. See AVRO-851 for more details.