From 6f8e76adfd6cdeaafc039bdd91193e086ee8ac80 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sean Arietta <sean.arietta@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 02:20:26 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Added check to parser encoder to automatically encode json if
 the message data is not a string

---
 socketIO_client/parser.py | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/socketIO_client/parser.py b/socketIO_client/parser.py
index 4edd487..27a2d7f 100644
--- a/socketIO_client/parser.py
+++ b/socketIO_client/parser.py
@@ -98,6 +98,8 @@ class Message():
 
     def encode_as_string(self):
         """Same as the encode_as_string method except it doesn't encode things as a JSON string"""
+        if not isinstance(self.message, basestring):
+            return self.encode_as_json();
         data = self.message;
         if self.id is not None:
             data = str(self.id) + self.message;