--- a/docs/api/api.rst	Wed Sep 28 13:36:25 2011 +0200
+++ b/docs/api/api.rst	Thu Sep 29 03:38:45 2011 +0300
@@ -7,7 +7,8 @@
 
 Starting from RhodeCode version 1.2 a simple API was implemented.
 There's one schema for calling all api methods. API is implemented
-with JSON protocol both ways. 
+with JSON protocol both ways. An url to send API request in RhodeCode is 
+<your-server>/_admin/api
 
 
 Clients need to send JSON data in such format::
@@ -50,7 +51,7 @@
 api_key
 
 ::
-    
+    api_key:"<api_key>"
     method: "pull"
     args: {"repo":<repo_name>}
 

--- a/rhodecode/controllers/api/__init__.py	Wed Sep 28 13:36:25 2011 +0200
+++ b/rhodecode/controllers/api/__init__.py	Thu Sep 29 03:38:45 2011 +0300
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
 from webob.exc import HTTPNotFound, HTTPForbidden, HTTPInternalServerError, \
 HTTPBadRequest, HTTPError
 
-from rhodecode.model.user import User
+from rhodecode.model.db import User
 from rhodecode.lib.auth import AuthUser
 
 log = logging.getLogger('JSONRPC')
@@ -85,10 +85,9 @@
         Parse the request body as JSON, look up the method on the
         controller and if it exists, dispatch to it.
         """
-
         if 'CONTENT_LENGTH' not in environ:
             log.debug("No Content-Length")
-            return jsonrpc_error(0, "No Content-Length")
+            return jsonrpc_error(message="No Content-Length in request")
         else:
             length = environ['CONTENT_LENGTH'] or 0
             length = int(environ['CONTENT_LENGTH'])
@@ -96,7 +95,7 @@
 
         if length == 0:
             log.debug("Content-Length is 0")
-            return jsonrpc_error(0, "Content-Length is 0")
+            return jsonrpc_error(message="Content-Length is 0")
 
         raw_body = environ['wsgi.input'].read(length)
 
@@ -104,12 +103,10 @@
             json_body = json.loads(urllib.unquote_plus(raw_body))
         except ValueError as e:
             #catch JSON errors Here
-            return jsonrpc_error("JSON parse error ERR:%s RAW:%r" \
+            return jsonrpc_error(message="JSON parse error ERR:%s RAW:%r" \
                                  % (e, urllib.unquote_plus(raw_body)))
 
-
         #check AUTH based on API KEY
-
         try:
             self._req_api_key = json_body['api_key']
             self._req_method = json_body['method']
@@ -131,7 +128,7 @@
         try:
             self._func = self._find_method()
         except AttributeError, e:
-            return jsonrpc_error(str(e))
+            return jsonrpc_error(message=str(e))
 
         # now that we have a method, add self._req_params to
         # self.kargs and dispatch control to WGIController
@@ -143,7 +140,7 @@
         self.rhodecode_user = auth_u
 
         if 'user' not in arglist:
-            return jsonrpc_error('This method [%s] does not support '
+            return jsonrpc_error(message='This method [%s] does not support '
                                  'authentication (missing user param)' %
                                  self._func.__name__)
 
@@ -155,7 +152,7 @@
                 continue
 
             if not self._req_params or arg not in self._req_params:
-                return jsonrpc_error('Missing %s arg in JSON DATA' % arg)
+                return jsonrpc_error(message='Missing %s arg in JSON DATA' % arg)
 
         self._rpc_args = dict(user=u)
         self._rpc_args.update(self._req_params)

--- a/rhodecode/lib/__init__.py	Wed Sep 28 13:36:25 2011 +0200
+++ b/rhodecode/lib/__init__.py	Thu Sep 29 03:38:45 2011 +0300
@@ -157,44 +157,66 @@
     return hashlib.sha1(username + salt).hexdigest()
 
 
-def safe_unicode(_str, from_encoding='utf8'):
+def safe_unicode(str_, from_encoding='utf8'):
     """
-    safe unicode function. In case of UnicodeDecode error we try to return
-    unicode with errors replaceed
+    safe unicode function. Does few trick to turn str_ into unicode
+     
+    In case of UnicodeDecode error we try to return it with encoding detected
+    by chardet library if it fails fallback to unicode with errors replaced
 
-    :param _str: string to decode
+    :param str_: string to decode
     :rtype: unicode
     :returns: unicode object
     """
 
-    if isinstance(_str, unicode):
-        return _str
+    if isinstance(str_, unicode):
+        return str_
 
     try:
-        u_str = unicode(_str, from_encoding)
+        return unicode(str_, from_encoding)
     except UnicodeDecodeError:
-        u_str = unicode(_str, from_encoding, 'replace')
-
-    return u_str
-
+        pass
+    
+    try:
+        import chardet
+        encoding = chardet.detect(str_)['encoding']
+        if encoding is None:
+            raise UnicodeDecodeError()
+        
+        return str_.decode(encoding)
+    except (ImportError, UnicodeDecodeError):
+        return unicode(str_, from_encoding, 'replace')    
 
-def safe_str(_unicode, to_encoding='utf8'):
+def safe_str(unicode_, to_encoding='utf8'):
     """
-    safe str function. In case of UnicodeEncode error we try to return
-    str with errors replaceed
+    safe str function. Does few trick to turn unicode_ into string
+     
+    In case of UnicodeEncodeError we try to return it with encoding detected
+    by chardet library if it fails fallback to string with errors replaced
 
-    :param _unicode: unicode to encode
+    :param unicode_: unicode to encode
     :rtype: str
     :returns: str object
     """
 
-    if isinstance(_unicode, str):
-        return _unicode
+    if isinstance(unicode_, str):
+        return unicode_
 
     try:
-        safe_str = str(_unicode)
+        return str(unicode_)
     except UnicodeEncodeError:
-        safe_str = _unicode.encode(to_encoding, 'replace')
+        pass
+    
+    try:
+        import chardet
+        encoding = chardet.detect(unicode_)['encoding']
+        print encoding
+        if encoding is None:
+            raise UnicodeEncodeError()
+        
+        return unicode_.encode(encoding)
+    except (ImportError, UnicodeEncodeError):
+        return unicode_.encode(to_encoding, 'replace')
 
     return safe_str