For context, I am attempting to create a JWT used to send notification requests to Apple Push Notifications server, as described here and here. Following the gists, I've attempted to decode the token generated by the jwt.encode() method. I wasn't sure why the gists did this, because PyJWT Docs state this method returns a str. In fact, the top answer to a similar question points this out.
However, if I don't attempt to decode the token, I receive a TypeError: Object of type bytes is not JSON serializable when I attempt to package the token as a request header:
def generate_token() -> str:
token = jwt.encode(
{...}
)
return token
def push_notification():
auth_token = generate_token()
headers = {"authorization": f"Bearer {auth_token}"}
...
response = await client.post(url, headers=headers, json=payload) # Traceback TypeError here
Note that the payload argument contains a dictionary of strings, there are no bytes here:
payload_data = {
"aps": {
"alert": {
"title": "Air Quality Alert",
"subtitle": "Your Air Quality Has recently exceeded WHO guidelines",
"body": "This is a test notification"
},
"sound": "default",
"category": "AIR_QUALITY",
"interruption-level": "active"
},
}
payload = json.dumps(payload_data).encode('utf-8')
As the title of the question states, if I do attempt to decode the token then an AttributeError is thrown: str' object has no attribute 'decode':
"authorization":f"bearer{auth_token.decode('ascii')}"
AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'decode'
