fix: update user's bool data and avatar

DylannCordel · DylannCordel · commit 3ba27ffb6ae9 · 2021-04-22T17:44:39.000+02:00
If we want to update email, avatar and do not send email
confirmation change (`skip_reconfirmation` = True), `MultipartEncoder`
will try to encode everything except None and bytes. So it tries to encode bools.
Casting bool's values to their stringified int representation fix it.
diff --git a/gitlab/client.py b/gitlab/client.py
@@ -505,6 +505,12 @@ def http_request(
             json = None
             if post_data is None:
                 post_data = {}
+            else:
+                # booleans does not exists for data (neither for MultipartEncoder):
+                # cast to string int to avoid: 'bool' object has no attribute 'encode'
+                for k, v in post_data.items():
+                    if isinstance(v, bool):
+                        post_data[k] = str(int(v))
             post_data["file"] = files.get("file")
             post_data["avatar"] = files.get("avatar")
             data = MultipartEncoder(post_data)
