chg: globals - standardize json_dumps return type to bytes

Author: RazCrimson

glances/exports/glances_json/__init__.py

@@ -47,8 +47,8 @@ def export(self, name, columns, points):
             logger.debug(f"Exporting stats ({listkeys(self.buffer)}) to JSON file ({self.json_filename})")
 
             # Export stats to JSON file
-            with open(self.json_filename, "w") as self.json_file:
-                self.json_file.write(f"{json_dumps(self.buffer)}\n")
+            with open(self.json_filename, "wb") as self.json_file:
+                self.json_file.write(json_dumps(self.buffer) + b'\n')
 
             # Reset buffer
             self.buffer = {}

glances/exports/glances_kafka/__init__.py

@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ def init(self):
         try:
             s = KafkaProducer(
                 bootstrap_servers=server_uri,
-                value_serializer=lambda v: json_dumps(v).encode('utf-8'),
+                value_serializer=lambda v: json_dumps(v),
                 compression_type=self.compression,
             )
         except Exception as e:

glances/exports/glances_zeromq/__init__.py

@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@
 import sys
 
 import zmq
-from zmq.utils.strtypes import asbytes
 
 from glances.exports.export import GlancesExport
 from glances.globals import b, json_dumps
@@ -81,7 +80,7 @@ def export(self, name, columns, points):
         # - First frame containing the following prefix (STRING)
         # - Second frame with the Glances plugin name (STRING)
         # - Third frame with the Glances plugin stats (JSON)
-        message = [b(self.prefix), b(name), asbytes(json_dumps(data))]
+        message = [b(self.prefix), b(name), json_dumps(data)]
 
         # Write data to the ZeroMQ bus
         # Result can be view: tcp://host:port

glances/globals.py

@@ -322,15 +322,17 @@ def urlopen_auth(url, username, password):
     )
 
 
-def json_dumps(data) -> str:
+def json_dumps(data) -> bytes:
     """Return the object data in a JSON format.
 
     Manage the issue #815 for Windows OS with UnicodeDecodeError catching.
     """
     try:
-        return json.dumps(data)
+        res = json.dumps(data)
     except UnicodeDecodeError:
-        return json.dumps(data, ensure_ascii=False)
+        res = json.dumps(data, ensure_ascii=False)
+    # ujson & json libs return strings, but our contract expects bytes
+    return b(res)
 
 
 def json_loads(data: Union[str, bytes, bytearray]) -> Union[Dict, List]: