localstorage ALWAYS parses four letter data as if base64

[DevWouter]

Expected Behavior

When invoking create on localstorage with test I expect that the new file has 4 bytes which spell out "test".

Actual Behavior

The actual content of the file is 3 bytes 0xb5 0xeb 0x2d.

Steps to Reproduce the Problem

Invoke the following.

curl -d '{ "operation": "create", "data": "test" }' \
      http://localhost:<dapr-port>/v1.0/bindings/<binding-name>

Example taken from: https://docs.dapr.io/reference/components-reference/supported-bindings/localstorage/#create-file but with the data being replaced with "test"

Cause

Since other words like "hello" worked fine I did some additional research. The problem is this line https://github.com/dapr/components-contrib/blob/cfee998aba0817ae07dc31bb53c34d21f6b9f4f2/bindings/localstorage/localstorage.go#L172C1-L175C3

It assumes that any content can be encoded as base64 and if so it will convert it before saving. and four letter words can be base64 format.

If I replace test with dGVzdA== then the file contains the text "test".
If I replace test with YWFh then the file contains "aaa".

Additional remarks

When I did some testing using javascripts atob and btoa I noticed that I could convert it back and forth. Originally I assumed that the word "test" had a special meaning 😄

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