Fixing fake response kludge for VOEvent text

Ensuring that VOEvent file text (in fake response kludge) is unicode.

ligo/gracedb/rest.py

@@ -122,6 +122,14 @@ class ProxyHTTPSConnection(ProxyHTTPConnection):
         else:
             self.sock = self.context.wrap_socket(self.sock)
 
+# Hacky fake response type for kludging response object
+# Has json() and read() methods
+class FakeResponse(object):
+    def __init__(self, json, *args, **kwargs): self._data = json
+    def json(self): return self._data
+    def read(self): return json.dumps(self._data)
+
+
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------
 # Generic GSI REST
 
@@ -1595,16 +1603,12 @@ class GraceDb(GsiRest):
             if 'voevents' in r_json:
                 # list of voevents - iterate and get file text
                 for v in r_json['voevents']:
-                    v[u'text'] = self.files(object_id, v['filename']).read()
+                    v[u'text'] = self.files(object_id, v['filename']) \
+                        .read().decode()
             else:
                 file_text = self.files(object_id, r_json['filename']).read()
-                r_json[u'text'] = file_text
+                r_json[u'text'] = file_text.decode()
 
-            # Set up fake response object with json() and read() methods
-            class FakeResponse(object):
-                def __init__(self, json, *args, **kwargs): self._data = json
-                def json(self): return self._data
-                def read(self): return json.dumps(self._data) 
             response = FakeResponse(r_json)
 
         # Return response