aiohttp converts data to string #781
Description
Nice to have aiohttp, since it supports the https protocol with 1.22!! I did not see aiohttp in the 1.22 announcement, it really is useful to have async https now!
When posting data with the data= option, the data gets converted to string before sending. This encloses the data in b'' before sending. For example data=b'hello' will send str(b'hello'), i.e. "b'hello'"
What is expected: I expected data= to accept bytes or bytearray, just like urequests or CPython aiohttp, and to transmit the raw bytes without converting nor encoding/decoding.
I am using: MicroPython v1.22.0 on 2023-12-27; Generic ESP32S3 module with Octal-SPIRAM with ESP32S3
Sample code (based on aiohttp examples):
import aiohttp
import asyncio
async def main():
do_connect()
async with aiohttp.ClientSession("http://httpbin.org") as session:
async with session.post("/post",data=b'hello world') as resp:
assert resp.status == 200
rpost = await resp.text()
print(f"POST: {rpost}")
asyncio.run(main())The output is
POST: {
"args": {},
"data": "b'hello world'",
"files": {},
"form": {},
"headers": {
"Content-Length": "14",
"Host": "httpbin.org",
"User-Agent": "compat",
"X-Amzn-Trace-Id": "Root=1-6594aa03-4f076b3a3480ef2659dfc035"
},
"json": null,
"origin": "181.43.38.11",
"url": "http://httpbin.org/post"
}