Fix: the utf-8 encoding broke arrays of hashes (e.g. organisation['employees'=>[{...},{...},{...}]]) - now working again.

lib/objects/local_encoding_functions.rb

@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+class EncodingFunctions
+
+  # Wrapper around force_encoding for readability
+  def self.string_to_utf8(value)
+    value.force_encoding('UTF-8')
+  end
+
+  # Recursively convert all hash values to UTF-8 encoding
+  def self.hash_to_utf8(value)
+    Hash[
+        value.collect do |k, v|
+          if v.respond_to?(:to_utf8)
+            [k, v.to_utf8]
+          elsif v.respond_to?(:force_encoding)
+            [k, v.dup.force_encoding('UTF-8')]
+          else
+            [k, v]
+          end
+        end
+    ]
+  end
+
+  # Recursively convert all array values to UTF-8 encoding
+  def self.array_to_utf8(value)
+    utf8 = []
+    value.map {|element|
+      if element.is_a? String
+        utf8 << element.force_encoding('UTF-8')
+      elsif element.is_a? Hash
+        utf8 << EncodingFunctions::hash_to_utf8(value)
+      elsif element.is_a? Array
+        array_to_utf8(value)
+      end
+    }
+    utf8
+  end
+end

lib/objects/local_string_encoder.rb

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 require 'getoptlong'
 require_relative '../helpers/constants'
+require_relative './local_encoding_functions.rb'
 require 'json'
 require 'base64'
 
@@ -140,15 +141,11 @@ class StringEncoder
     self.instance_variables.each do |iv|
       iv_value = self.instance_variable_get(iv)
       if iv_value.is_a? Array
-        utf8 = []
-        iv_value.map {|element|
-          if element.is_a? String
-            utf8 << element.force_encoding('UTF-8')
-          end
-        }
-        self.instance_variable_set(iv, utf8)
+        self.instance_variable_set(iv, EncodingFunctions::array_to_utf8(iv_value))
+      elsif iv_value.is_a? Hash
+        self.instance_variable_set(iv, EncodingFunctions::hash_to_utf8(iv_value))
       elsif iv_value.is_a? String
-        self.instance_variable_set(iv, iv_value.force_encoding('UTF-8'))
+        self.instance_variable_set(iv, EncodingFunctions::string_to_utf8(iv_value))
       end
     end
   end