Direct access to binary content without encoding

[rubyshamir]

Hello and thanks for this great software!

We have a swagger definition containing a "GET" command returning a large file (format: "application/octet-stream").

The current implementation of response() eventually calls "unmarshal_response_inner" in "http_future.py". This method does not have a specific handling for binary data and encodes the data to string.

On large files, like in our case, this is a very time consuming process (2-3 seconds per 0.5 MB).
We have locally altered the code to return the binary data in case of "application/octet-stream" format and the time was reduced to ~0.1 seconds per 0.5 MB.

The altered function is as follows:

def unmarshal_response_inner(response, op):    
    ...
    # Code we added ##
    if content_type.startswith('application/octet'):
        return response.raw_bytes

    # TODO: Non-json response contents
    return response.text

We will be glad to learn if there is another workaround without changing the code.

Thanks in advance,

Ruby

[rubyshamir]

Duplicated message by mistake