fix json decode issue

check-my-stuff

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 #!/bin/sh
+set -eo pipefail
 
 if [ "$#" -eq "0" ]
   then
@@ -19,15 +20,3 @@ cd "$BASE" || exit 1
 
 utils/schema-check/dn42-schema.py -v scan data/ $MNT || ( echo "Schema validation failed, please check above!" ; exit 1 )
 
-exit 0
-
-git diff --cached --name-only | while IFS='/' read -ra LINE; do
-if [[ "${LINE[0]}" = "data" ]]; then
-	if ! utils/schema-check/dn42-schema.py policy ${LINE[1]} ${LINE[2]} $MNT; then
-		echo "# This file fails policy checks. To continue with the commit revert the change."
-		echo "#    git reset HEAD -- " ${LINE[1]}/${LINE[1]}/${LINE[2]}
-		echo "#    git checkout -- " ${LINE[1]}/${LINE[1]}/${LINE[2]}
-		exit 1
-	fi
-fi
-done

check-pol

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 #!/bin/sh
+set -eo pipefail
 
 if [ $# -eq 0 ]
   then

utils/schema-check/dn42-schema.py

@@ -374,7 +374,10 @@ def http_get(server, url, query=None, headers=None):
     if "application/json" in req.getheader("Content-Type", "application/json"):
         if req.status > 299:
             return {}
-        return json.loads(req.read())
+        r = req.read()
+        if not isinstance(r, str):
+           r = r.decode("utf-8")
+        return json.loads(r)
 
     if req.status > 299:
         return ""