vmware_inventory: decode strings to ascii if not alphanumeric (#17618)

Fixes #17281
8 years ago · 66426dcd38
parent 794c1636eb
commit 66426dcd38
1 changed files with 4 additions and 1 deletions
--- a/contrib/inventory/vmware_inventory.py
+++ b/contrib/inventory/vmware_inventory.py
@ -487,7 +487,10 @@ class VMWareInventory(object):
        if vobj is None:
            rdata = None
        elif issubclass(type(vobj), str) or isinstance(vobj, str):
-            rdata = vobj
+            if vobj.isalnum():
+                rdata = vobj
+            else:
+                rdata = vobj.decode('ascii', 'ignore')
        elif issubclass(type(vobj), bool) or isinstance(vobj, bool):
            rdata = vobj
        elif issubclass(type(vobj), int) or isinstance(vobj, int):