With Python 3, the body of POST requests is base64-encoded

As a consequence of commit 09b7ccf (more precisely, of the conversion in the request body setter), the body of the POST requests are unreadable in the tape file:

--- tape.yaml
+++ tape.yaml
@@ -41,8 +41,7 @@ interactions:
       content-type: [application/json; charset=utf-8]
     status: {code: 200, message: OK}
 - request:
-    body: mail_host=example.com
+    body: !!binary |
+      bWFpbF9ob3N0PWV4YW1wbGUuY29t
     headers:
       accept-encoding: ['gzip, deflate']
       content-type: [application/x-www-form-urlencoded]

It makes it much harder to diff changes between tapes committed in a VCS, and to identify what each request is coming from in the code.

[danilosoares]

I fix my problem with the following code:

with open(file.path, “rb”) as pdf_file: encoded_string = base64.b64encode(pdf_file.read()) req_file = encoded_string.decode(‘utf-8’)

payload = { ‘req_file’ : req_file }

res = requests.post(url, data=json.dumps(payload), headers=headers)

Has work!!!

[neozenith]

A lot of changes have happened to VCRpy since this ticket was opened. As this ticket has become stale and we have a lot of old tickets that need to be groomed, I’m closing this for now to make it easier to see what is still relevant.

However if it is still needed, please feel free to re-open or create a new ticket.

Thanks! 🙏