From 72fb2674117ee8c3c1cafa17512e524ea437f966 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Petr Viktorin <pviktori@redhat.com>
Date: May 05 2016 14:43:36 +0000
Subject: ipalib.rpc: Send base64-encoded data as string under Python 3


Python 3's JSON library cannot deal with bytes, so decode
base64-encoded data to string.

Part of the work for https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/4985

Reviewed-By: Martin Basti <mbasti@redhat.com>
Reviewed-By: Petr Spacek <pspacek@redhat.com>

---

diff --git a/ipalib/rpc.py b/ipalib/rpc.py
index abc5575..207149e 100644
--- a/ipalib/rpc.py
+++ b/ipalib/rpc.py
@@ -298,7 +298,10 @@ def json_encode_binary(val, version):
         new_list = [json_encode_binary(v, version) for v in val]
         return new_list
     elif isinstance(val, bytes):
-        return {'__base64__': base64.b64encode(val)}
+        encoded = base64.b64encode(val)
+        if not six.PY2:
+            encoded = encoded.decode('ascii')
+        return {'__base64__': encoded}
     elif isinstance(val, Decimal):
         return {'__base64__': base64.b64encode(str(val))}
     elif isinstance(val, DN):