fix: return str instead of urllib3.HTTPResponse for InfluxDBClient.QueryAPI.query_raw

Author: jules-ch

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 
 ### Bug Fixes
 1. [#601](https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb-client-python/pull/601): Use HTTResponse.headers to clear deprecation warning [urllib3]
+2. [#569](https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb-client-python/pull/569): Return `str` instead of `urllib3.HTTPResponse` for `InfluxDBClient.QueryAPI.query_raw`.
+
 
 ### Documentation
 1. [#566](https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb-client-python/pull/566): Fix Sphinx documentation build and add support `.readthedocs.yml` V2 configuration file

influxdb_client/client/query_api.py

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 from influxdb_client import Dialect
 from influxdb_client.client._base import _BaseQueryApi
 from influxdb_client.client.flux_table import FluxRecord, TableList, CSVIterator
+from influxdb_client.rest import _UTF_8_encoding
 
 
 class QueryOptions(object):
@@ -121,8 +122,8 @@ def query_raw(self, query: str, org=None, dialect=_BaseQueryApi.default_dialect,
         org = self._org_param(org)
         result = self._query_api.post_query(org=org, query=self._create_query(query, dialect, params), async_req=False,
                                             _preload_content=False)
-
-        return result
+        raw_bytes = result.read()
+        return raw_bytes.decode(_UTF_8_encoding)
 
     def query(self, query: str, org=None, params: dict = None) -> TableList:
         """Execute synchronous Flux query and return result as a :class:`~influxdb_client.client.flux_table.FluxTable` list.

tests/test_InfluxDBClient.py

@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-import codecs
 import http.server
 import json
 import logging
@@ -346,7 +345,8 @@ def test_query_and_debug(self):
         self.assertIn("my-bucket", list(map(lambda record: record["name"], results[0].records)))
         # Query RAW
         results = self.client.query_api().query_raw("buckets()", "my-org")
-        self.assertIn("my-bucket", codecs.decode(results.data))
+        self.assertIn("my-bucket", results)
+        self.assertTrue(isinstance(results, str))
         # Bucket API
         results = self.client.buckets_api().find_buckets()
         self.assertIn("my-bucket", list(map(lambda bucket: bucket.name, results.buckets)))