deserialize fails

Hi,

the deserialize cmd does not seem to work for me. I started an electron-cash daemon as well as an electrum one. Electrum 3.1.2. can decode the BCH txn, though electron-cash can’t. Here’s my console interaction to try to decode a recent coinbase txn:

awemany@bitcoinunlimited:~/Electron Cash-3.1.6$ ./electron-cash gettransaction 147f8cff3bb64a78bd97a947cb90734c9ee4aed9002aa026f98fb39379797bfa{
    "complete": true,
    "final": true,
    "hex": "01000000010000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000ffffffff2503020608184d696e656420627920416e74506f6f6c343505205ad1f03ede83000063f70100ffffffff0209e9954a000000001976a9141fefe863a7e0ddc767780ce3bedc564cf5cbda6388acfcc80200000000001976a914000000000000000000000000000000000000000088ac00000000"
}
awemany@bitcoinunlimited:~/Electron Cash-3.1.6$ ./electron-cash deserialize 01000000010000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000ffffffff2503020608184d696e656420627920416e74506f6f6c343505205ad1f03ede83000063f70100ffffffff0209e9954a000000001976a9141fefe863a7e0ddc767780ce3bedc564cf5cbda6388acfcc80200000000001976a914000000000000000000000000000000000000000088ac00000000
Server-side error: <Fault -32603: Server error: File "/usr/lib/python3.6/json/encoder.py", line 180, in default | TypeError: Object of type 'bytes' is not JSON serializable
>
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/awemany/Electron Cash-3.1.6/packages/jsonrpclib/SimpleJSONRPCServer.py", line 447, in do_POST
    data, getattr(self, '_dispatch', None), self.path)
  File "/home/awemany/Electron Cash-3.1.6/packages/jsonrpclib/SimpleJSONRPCServer.py", line 268, in _marshaled_dispatch
    return jsonrpclib.jdumps(response, self.encoding)
  File "/home/awemany/Electron Cash-3.1.6/packages/jsonrpclib/jsonrpc.py", line 160, in jdumps
    return json.dumps(obj)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/json/__init__.py", line 231, in dumps
    return _default_encoder.encode(obj)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/json/encoder.py", line 199, in encode
    chunks = self.iterencode(o, _one_shot=True)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/json/encoder.py", line 257, in iterencode
    return _iterencode(o, 0)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/json/encoder.py", line 180, in default
    o.__class__.__name__)
TypeError: Object of type 'bytes' is not JSON serializable
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./electron-cash", line 435, in <module>
    result = server.run_cmdline(config_options)
  File "/home/awemany/Electron Cash-3.1.6/packages/jsonrpclib/jsonrpc.py", line 650, in __call__
    return self.__send(self.__name, args)
  File "/home/awemany/Electron Cash-3.1.6/packages/jsonrpclib/jsonrpc.py", line 531, in _request
    response = self._run_request(request)
  File "/home/awemany/Electron Cash-3.1.6/packages/jsonrpclib/jsonrpc.py", line 564, in _run_request
    verbose=self.__verbose
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/xmlrpc/client.py", line 1154, in request
    return self.single_request(host, handler, request_body, verbose)
  File "/home/awemany/Electron Cash-3.1.6/packages/jsonrpclib/jsonrpc.py", line 387, in single_request
    response.msg)
jsonrpclib.jsonrpc.ProtocolError: ('user:XXX@127.0.0.1:34825/', 500, 'Internal Server Error', <http.client.HTTPMessage object at 0x7f650ead0048>)
awemany@bitcoinunlimited:~/Electron Cash-3.1.6$ electrum deserialize 01000000010000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000ffffffff2503020608184d696e656420627920416e74506f6f6c343505205ad1f03ede83000063f70100ffffffff0209e9954a000000001976a9141fefe863a7e0ddc767780ce3bedc564cf5cbda6388acfcc80200000000001976a914000000000000000000000000000000000000000088ac00000000
{
    "inputs": [
        {
            "address": null,
            "num_sig": 0,
            "prevout_hash": "0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000",
            "prevout_n": 4294967295,
            "pubkeys": [],
            "scriptSig": "03020608184d696e656420627920416e74506f6f6c343505205ad1f03ede83000063f70100",
            "sequence": 4294967295,
            "signatures": {},
            "type": "coinbase",
            "x_pubkeys": []
        }
    ],
    "lockTime": 0,
    "outputs": [
        {
            "address": "13usM2ns3f466LP65EY1h8hnTBLFiJV6rD",
            "prevout_n": 0,
            "scriptPubKey": "76a9141fefe863a7e0ddc767780ce3bedc564cf5cbda6388ac",
            "type": 0,
            "value": 1251338505
        },
        {
            "address": "1111111111111111111114oLvT2",
            "prevout_n": 1,
            "scriptPubKey": "76a914000000000000000000000000000000000000000088ac",
            "type": 0,
            "value": 182524
        }
    ],
    "version": 1
}```

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Thank you cculianu. It works now. You are a ninja!

[cculianu]

Ah! Didn’t realize you were doing RPC. I should have form the stack trace tho. LOL. Sorry! My bad!

Yes. It’s broken. Same errors you got. Let me investigate this…