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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
38/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
api, tooling

Research direction

Start with the generated _get_kwargs method and trace the arguments and body_to_kwarg macros, especially how endpoint.bodies[0].prop.get_type_string() differs from body.body_type. Review the application/x-www-form-urlencoded BodyType mapping and verify that a binary body no longer attempts to access .to_dict.

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Describe the bug
In the _get_kwargs generated method, the body is determined as File type (because the format in my swagger definition is binary), but it tries to access its .to_dict attribute (because body_type is considered as data due to the content type application/x-www-form-urlencoded), which does not exist because it is a file

OpenAPI Spec File

"content": {
    "application/x-www-form-urlencoded": {
        "schema": {
            "description": "do stuff",
            "type": "string",
            "format": "binary"
        }
    }
}

Desktop (please complete the following information):

  • OS: macOS 13.3.1
  • Python Version: 3.9.8
  • openapi-python-client version: 0.17.2

Additional context
In the macro, the arguments macro determine the argument type of body based on endpoint.bodies[0].prop.get_type_string(), whereas in the body_to_kwarg macro it determines it based on body.body_type, which is determined by the following:

        if simplified_content_type == "application/x-www-form-urlencoded":
            body_type = BodyType.DATA
        elif simplified_content_type == "multipart/form-data":
            body_type = BodyType.FILES
        elif simplified_content_type == "application/octet-stream":
            body_type = BodyType.CONTENT
        elif simplified_content_type == "application/json" or simplified_content_type.endswith("+json"):
            body_type = BodyType.JSON
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