[Bug 1785821] Re: "pastebinit -i file" to paste.openstack.org fails: Object of type 'bytes' is not JSON serializable

[Lukas Märdian]

** Changed in: pastebinit (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => In Progress

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Title:
  "pastebinit -i file" to paste.openstack.org fails: Object of type
  'bytes' is not JSON serializable

Status in pastebinit package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in pastebinit source package in Focal:
  Confirmed
Status in pastebinit source package in Hirsute:
  New
Status in pastebinit source package in Impish:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  pastebinit from a file to paste.openstack.org fails:

  paulo:~/tmp$ pastebinit -i /etc/lsb-release -b paste.openstack.org
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/bin/pastebinit", line 417, in <module>
      params = json.dumps(params)
    File "/usr/lib/python3.6/json/__init__.py", line 231, in dumps
      return _default_encoder.encode(obj)
    File "/usr/lib/python3.6/json/encoder.py", line 199, in encode
      chunks = self.iterencode(o, _one_shot=True)
    File "/usr/lib/python3.6/json/encoder.py", line 257, in iterencode
      return _iterencode(o, 0)
    File "/usr/lib/python3.6/json/encoder.py", line 180, in default
      o.__class__.__name__)
  TypeError: Object of type 'bytes' is not JSON serializable

  It doesn't seem to depend on the file type: I tried with quite a few
  and the error was the same each time.

  It works as expected when reading from stdin:

  paulo:~/tmp$ cat /etc/lsb-release | pastebinit -b paste.openstack.org
  http://paste.openstack.org/show/727520

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
  Package: pastebinit 1.5-2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-30.32-generic 4.15.18
  Uname: Linux 4.15.0-30-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.2
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: XFCE
  Date: Tue Aug  7 10:37:10 2018
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-04-28 (101 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180426)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: pastebinit
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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