add more drawing func to effect engine (#400)

* - add more drawing func to effect engine
- make provider rs232 less noisy
- json checks: remove utf8 conversion temporarly and make it compat with py3 again

* fix compile prob

test/jsonchecks/checkeffects.py

@@ -12,14 +12,14 @@ retval  = 0
 total   = 0
 errors  = 0
 with open("libsrc/effectengine/EffectDefinition.schema.json") as baseSchemaFile:
-	baseSchema = json.loads(baseSchemaFile.read().decode('utf-8-sig'))
+	baseSchema = json.loads(baseSchemaFile.read())
 	baseValidator = Draft3Validator(baseSchema)
 	for filename in glob.glob(jsonFiles+'/*.json'):
 		with open(filename) as f:
 			total += 1
 			msg = "   check effect %s ... " % filename
 			try:
-				effect = json.loads(f.read().decode('utf-8-sig'))
+				effect = json.loads(f.read())
 				script = path.basename(effect['script'])
 				if not path.exists(jsonFiles+'/'+script):
 					raise ValueError('script file: '+script+' not found.')
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ with open("libsrc/effectengine/EffectDefinition.schema.json") as baseSchemaFile:
 				
 				# validate against schema
 				with open(schema) as s:
-					effectSchema = json.loads(s.read().decode('utf-8-sig'))
+					effectSchema = json.loads(s.read())
 					Draft3Validator.check_schema(effectSchema)
 					validator = Draft3Validator(effectSchema)
 					baseValidator.validate(effect)

test/jsonchecks/checkjson.py

@@ -11,7 +11,8 @@ for filename in sys.argv[1:]:
 		total += 1
 		msg = "   check json %s ... " % filename
 		try:
-			json.loads(f.read().decode('utf-8-sig'))
+			data = f.read()
+			json.loads(data)
 			#print(msg + "ok")
 		except ValueError as e:
 			print(msg + 'invalid ('+str(e)+')')

test/jsonchecks/checkschema.py

@@ -11,8 +11,8 @@ schemaFileName = sys.argv[2]
 try:
 	with open(schemaFileName) as schemaFile:
 		with open(jsonFileName) as jsonFile:
-			j = json.loads(jsonFile.read().decode('utf-8-sig'))
-			validator = Draft3Validator(json.loads(schemaFile.read().decode('utf-8-sig')))
+			j = json.loads(jsonFile.read())
+			validator = Draft3Validator(json.loads(schemaFile.read()))
 			validator.validate(j)
 except Exception as e:
 	print('validation error: '+jsonFileName + ' '+schemaFileName+' ('+str(e)+')')