connect_get_namespaced_service_proxy_with_path messes up response

[david0]

What happened (please include outputs or screenshots):

Im running connect_get_namespaced_service_proxy_with_path(name, namespace, path="actuator") to get JSON data from my webservice.

The result is a JSON list:
["foo", "bar"]

but the function returns
['foo', 'bar']

What you expected to happen:
The function to return ["foo", "bar"] or to return the list or a bytearray.

How to reproduce it (as minimally and precisely as possible):

Anything else we need to know?:

It looks like the deserialisation messes it up. It can be worked around by passing _preload_content=False

Environment:

• Kubernetes version (kubectl version): v1.25.13
• OS (e.g., MacOS 10.13.6): MacOS 13.6
• Python version (python --version): Python 3.9.17
• Python client version (pip list | grep kubernetes): 28.1.0

[roycaihw]

The result is a JSON list:
["foo", "bar"]

but the function returns
['foo', 'bar']

Could you elaborate what's the difference between the two responses?

[david0]

The webservice that I'm trying to connect will return a JSON list of strings (with doublequotes): ["foo", "bar"]

connect_get_namespaced_service_proxy_with_path(name, namespace, path="actuator") will return a str with the value ['foo', 'bar'] , which is very unexpected for me. I mean it looks on first sight like a valid python list, but its returned as a str(!) instead of list.

If the return value would be a list, it would be fine. But I guess intuitively everyone would expect that it would return the raw, original response string ["foo", "bar"]

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