Bravado tries to parse xml response as JSON

[bxm156]

One of my endpoints responds with xml data. I specify in the swagger spec that this endpoint produces: application/xml. Despite this, trying to call result() returns a JSONDecodeError.

If I configure 'also_return_response': True, it still tries to parse it as JSON :(

[analogue]

That definitely needs fixing: https://github.com/Yelp/bravado-core/blob/master/bravado_core/response.py#L102

[bxm156]

I tried passing in .result(raw_response=True), but it still didn't work. Is raw_response not supported?

[analogue]

swaggerpy (swagger 1.2) was refactored so much whilst adding Swagger 2.0 support (bravado/bravado-core) that it was effectively a rewrite. raw_response didn't make it in the final cut 😢

[bowman]

As a work around I clear the deferred.operation = None, making the current version not try to parse as json. This is really an implementation detail, so relying on it seems like a bad idea.

        :param operation: operation that this http request is for. Defaults
            to None - in which case, we're obviously just retrieving a Swagger
            Spec.

After that you can look at the result text without json parsing:

res = deferred.result()
res.text

Unfortunately, the library doesn't expose the .content() from requests
so I hit a charset encoding slow down https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests/issues/2359