From 891134a33e4b3e03f7e4c3f91c4f7cb0234f3c56 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: joshua-badger <67024357+joshua-badger@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2022 11:23:40 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] feat(matcher): Allow bytes type in from_term function (#281)

* feat(matcher): Allow bytes type for from_term function

* feat(matcher): Update documentation
---
 pact/matchers.py       | 4 ++--
 tests/test_matchers.py | 3 +++
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pact/matchers.py b/pact/matchers.py
index 55424fdd2..52a414804 100644
--- a/pact/matchers.py
+++ b/pact/matchers.py
@@ -184,13 +184,13 @@ def from_term(term):
     Parse the provided term into the JSON for the mock service.
 
     :param term: The term to be parsed.
-    :type term: None, list, dict, int, float, str, unicode, Matcher
+    :type term: None, list, dict, int, float, str, bytes, unicode, Matcher
     :return: The JSON representation for this term.
     :rtype: dict, list, str
     """
     if term is None:
         return term
-    elif isinstance(term, (six.string_types, int, float)):
+    elif isinstance(term, (six.string_types, six.binary_type, int, float)):
         return term
     elif isinstance(term, dict):
         return {k: from_term(v) for k, v in term.items()}
diff --git a/tests/test_matchers.py b/tests/test_matchers.py
index 70fee2e18..1cc446f3b 100644
--- a/tests/test_matchers.py
+++ b/tests/test_matchers.py
@@ -135,6 +135,9 @@ def test_int(self):
     def test_float(self):
         self.assertEqual(from_term(3.14), 3.14)
 
+    def test_bytes(self):
+        self.assertEqual(from_term(b'testing'), b'testing')
+
     def test_list(self):
         term = [1, 123, 'sample']
         self.assertEqual(from_term(term), term)