api_call method returning string, not dict

[jcshott]

I was testing the api_call method and couldn't parse - when testing response, I was getting a response as a string, not a dictionary, as the documentation notes.

import time, os
from slackclient import SlackClient

token = os.environ.get("SLACK_TOKEN")
sc = SlackClient(token)

print sc.api_call("api.test")
print type(sc.api_call("api.test"))


get_info = sc.api_call("im.history", channel="D076VAAKY")
print type(get_info)

response from running this script:

$ python slack_test.py
{"ok":true,"args":{"token":"xoxp-6950599446-7233369073-12964712006-aa717de21f"}}
<type 'str'>
<type 'str'>

[rawdigits]

Sorry about that! It appears I always return a string, and was incorrect in the docs. I'll update the docs.

[elementc]

I've provided PRs #70 and #71 to fix this issue. #70 fixes the api_call func to do a json.loads() before returning- I prefer this solution to #71's since it's more consistent with rtm_read()'s returning of dicts. #71 only fixes the docs to show api calls being passed through json.loads(). Take your pick which you merge.

[elementc]

#70 was obsoleted by #74 which also fixes #73 in addition to this issue.

[ravenCondol]

The examples in the docstring for api_call still say that it returns a string rather than a dict. Minor thing, but thought I'd say in case someone else stumbles on this ahaha