In Python3 all strings are considered Unicode by default. The
unicode type from Python 2 is called str in Python 3, and str
becomes bytes. In Python3, there aren’t any automatic conversions
between str and bytes though. The json.loads in Python versions
>3 and <3.6 expects a string representation and not bytes. As we
receive bytes we need to decode() it, as this always returns str,
just as needed.
Fixes:
| File "./release_dashboard/views/build.py", line 59, in hotfix_build
| json_data = json.loads(request.body)
| File "/usr/lib/python3.4/json/__init__.py", line 312, in loads
| s.__class__.__name__))
| TypeError: the JSON object must be str, not 'bytes'
See https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/topics/python3/ and
https://vinta.ws/code/notes-of-porting-to-python-3-for-a-django-project.html
for related documentation.
Change-Id: I3984c5fd1f79b94680e680c8da64dd0ac111cbe9
Michael Prokop
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