Fix D-Bus marshalling of (byte) strings.

D-Bus transmits Python (byte) strings as D-Bus (character) strings by default,
so we need to explicitly convert them to D-Bus ByteArrays.

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/src/gdatastore/datastore.py b/src/gdatastore/datastore.py
index 57f6bdf..1cb8555 100644
--- a/src/gdatastore/datastore.py
+++ b/src/gdatastore/datastore.py
@@ -278,11 +278,12 @@ class InternalApi(object):
                                                 options)
         #logging.debug('object_ids=%r', object_ids)
         property_names = options.pop('metadata', None)
-        if property_names:
-            for entry in entries:
-                for name in entry.keys():
-                    if name not in property_names:
-                        del entry[name]
+        for entry in entries:
+            for name in entry.keys():
+                if property_names and name not in property_names:
+                    del entry[name]
+                elif isinstance(entry[name], str):
+                    entry[name] = dbus.ByteArray(entry[name])
 
         return entries, total_count