allansifuna/flask-mpesa

Flask-Mpesa provides a simple intergration for flask Applications with Mpesa Daraja API.

Hi 👋, I'm Allan Sifuna

Software Developer.

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flask-mpesa's Issues

Bug in serializing encoded password (business_shortcode+ passcode+ time) in Mpesa Express stk_push

First of all. Good stuff with this library. It is very well written and documented.

So. I encountered this problem where I had passed everything as expected to use the Mpesa express stkpush. But I kept getting this error.

After a very long time I discovered that the encoded password was a byte and could not be serialized so as to be passed in the requested body.

This is a screenshot of a segment of the class before I refactored it.

And after.

Decoding the password to a string worked for me and everything else was seamless.

I am not sure if it is an isolated case for me or for others as well, so I thought I'd raise this issue.

data types of values

Are the values of the data types all strings? or are some numeric values