detect UTF encodings when loading json

CHANGES.rst

@@ -147,6 +147,9 @@ unreleased
   when it is registered with the app. (`#2629`_)
 - :meth:`Request.get_json() <flask.Request.get_json>` doesn't cache the
   result if parsing fails when ``silent`` is true. (`#2651`_)
+- :func:`request.get_json <flask.Request.get_json>` no longer accepts
+  arbitrary encodings. Incoming JSON should be encoded using UTF-8 per
+  :rfc:`8259`, but Flask will autodetect UTF-8, -16, or -32. (`#2691`_)
 
 .. _pallets/meta#24: https://github.com/pallets/meta/issues/24
 .. _#1421: https://github.com/pallets/flask/issues/1421
@@ -192,6 +195,7 @@ unreleased
 .. _#2635: https://github.com/pallets/flask/pull/2635
 .. _#2629: https://github.com/pallets/flask/pull/2629
 .. _#2651: https://github.com/pallets/flask/issues/2651
+.. _#2691: https://github.com/pallets/flask/pull/2691
 
 
 Version 0.12.2

flask/json/__init__.py

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ flask.json
 :copyright: © 2010 by the Pallets team.
 :license: BSD, see LICENSE for more details.
 """
-
+import codecs
 import io
 import uuid
 from datetime import date, datetime
@@ -121,6 +121,49 @@ def _load_arg_defaults(kwargs):
         kwargs.setdefault('cls', JSONDecoder)
 
 
+def detect_encoding(data):
+    """Detect which UTF codec was used to encode the given bytes.
+
+    The latest JSON standard (:rfc:`8259`) suggests that only UTF-8 is
+    accepted. Older documents allowed 8, 16, or 32. 16 and 32 can be big
+    or little endian. Some editors or libraries may prepend a BOM.
+
+    :param data: Bytes in unknown UTF encoding.
+    :return: UTF encoding name
+    """
+    head = data[:4]
+
+    if head[:3] == codecs.BOM_UTF8:
+        return 'utf-8-sig'
+
+    if b'\x00' not in head:
+        return 'utf-8'
+
+    if head in (codecs.BOM_UTF32_BE, codecs.BOM_UTF32_LE):
+        return 'utf-32'
+
+    if head[:2] in (codecs.BOM_UTF16_BE, codecs.BOM_UTF16_LE):
+        return 'utf-16'
+
+    if len(head) == 4:
+        if head[:3] == b'\x00\x00\x00':
+            return 'utf-32-be'
+
+        if head[::2] == b'\x00\x00':
+            return 'utf-16-be'
+
+        if head[1:] == b'\x00\x00\x00':
+            return 'utf-32-le'
+
+        if head[1::2] == b'\x00\x00':
+            return 'utf-16-le'
+
+    if len(head) == 2:
+        return 'utf-16-be' if head.startswith(b'\x00') else 'utf-16-le'
+
+    return 'utf-8'
+
+
 def dumps(obj, **kwargs):
     """Serialize ``obj`` to a JSON formatted ``str`` by using the application's
     configured encoder (:attr:`~flask.Flask.json_encoder`) if there is an
@@ -155,7 +198,10 @@ def loads(s, **kwargs):
     """
     _load_arg_defaults(kwargs)
     if isinstance(s, bytes):
-        s = s.decode(kwargs.pop('encoding', None) or 'utf-8')
+        encoding = kwargs.pop('encoding', None)
+        if encoding is None:
+            encoding = detect_encoding(s)
+        s = s.decode(encoding)
     return _json.loads(s, **kwargs)
 
 

flask/wrappers.py

@@ -50,15 +50,17 @@ class JSONMixin(object):
         return self.get_data(cache=cache)
 
     def get_json(self, force=False, silent=False, cache=True):
-        """Parse and return the data as JSON. If the mimetype does not indicate
-        JSON (:mimetype:`application/json`, see :meth:`is_json`), this returns
-        ``None`` unless ``force`` is true. If parsing fails,
-        :meth:`on_json_loading_failed` is called and its return value is used
-        as the return value.
+        """Parse and return the data as JSON. If the mimetype does not
+        indicate JSON (:mimetype:`application/json`, see
+        :meth:`is_json`), this returns ``None`` unless ``force`` is
+        true. If parsing fails, :meth:`on_json_loading_failed` is called
+        and its return value is used as the return value.
 
         :param force: Ignore the mimetype and always try to parse JSON.
-        :param silent: Silence parsing errors and return ``None`` instead.
-        :param cache: Store the parsed JSON to return for subsequent calls.
+        :param silent: Silence parsing errors and return ``None``
+            instead.
+        :param cache: Store the parsed JSON to return for subsequent
+            calls.
         """
         if cache and self._cached_json[silent] is not Ellipsis:
             return self._cached_json[silent]
@@ -66,14 +68,10 @@ class JSONMixin(object):
         if not (force or self.is_json):
             return None
 
-        # We accept MIME charset against the specification as certain clients
-        # have used this in the past. For responses, we assume that if the
-        # charset is set then the data has been encoded correctly as well.
-        charset = self.mimetype_params.get('charset')
+        data = self._get_data_for_json(cache=cache)
 
         try:
-            data = self._get_data_for_json(cache=cache)
-            rv = json.loads(data, encoding=charset)
+            rv = json.loads(data)
         except ValueError as e:
             if silent:
                 rv = None

tests/test_helpers.py

@@ -16,10 +16,13 @@ import uuid
 import pytest
 from werkzeug.datastructures import Range
 from werkzeug.exceptions import BadRequest, NotFound
-from werkzeug.http import http_date, parse_cache_control_header, \
+from werkzeug.http import (
+    http_date, parse_cache_control_header,
     parse_options_header
+)
 
 import flask
+from flask import json
 from flask._compat import StringIO, text_type
 from flask.helpers import get_debug_flag, get_env
 
@@ -55,6 +58,21 @@ class FixedOffset(datetime.tzinfo):
 
 
 class TestJSON(object):
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize('value', (
+        1, 't', True, False, None,
+        [], [1, 2, 3],
+        {}, {'foo': u'🐍'},
+    ))
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize('encoding', (
+        'utf-8', 'utf-8-sig',
+        'utf-16-le', 'utf-16-be', 'utf-16',
+        'utf-32-le', 'utf-32-be', 'utf-32',
+    ))
+    def test_detect_encoding(self, value, encoding):
+        data = json.dumps(value).encode(encoding)
+        assert json.detect_encoding(data) == encoding
+        assert json.loads(data) == value
+
     def test_ignore_cached_json(self, app):
         with app.test_request_context('/', method='POST', data='malformed',
                                       content_type='application/json'):
@@ -121,16 +139,6 @@ class TestJSON(object):
         rv = client.post('/json', data='"foo"', content_type='application/x+json')
         assert rv.data == b'foo'
 
-    def test_json_body_encoding(self, app, client):
-
-        @app.route('/')
-        def index():
-            return flask.request.get_json()
-
-        resp = client.get('/', data=u'"Hällo Wörld"'.encode('iso-8859-15'),
-                          content_type='application/json; charset=iso-8859-15')
-        assert resp.data == u'Hällo Wörld'.encode('utf-8')
-
     @pytest.mark.parametrize('test_value,expected', [(True, '"\\u2603"'), (False, u'"\u2603"')])
     def test_json_as_unicode(self, test_value, expected, app, app_ctx):