From 4a148971b4fb5dff9ad41e02716e12e556bf41d8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Fabio Manganiello <blacklight86@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2018 22:52:25 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Allow non-string values to be passed through a request
 context as well

---
 platypush/message/request/__init__.py | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/platypush/message/request/__init__.py b/platypush/message/request/__init__.py
index 04659b36f..f09f4adca 100644
--- a/platypush/message/request/__init__.py
+++ b/platypush/message/request/__init__.py
@@ -126,7 +126,10 @@ class Request(Message):
                         pass
 
         parsed_value = ''
-        while value:
+        if not isinstance(value, str):
+            parsed_value = value
+
+        while value and isinstance(value, str):
             m = re.match('([^\$]*)(\${\s*(.+?)\s*})(.*)', value)
             if m and not m.group(1).endswith('\\'):
                 prefix = m.group(1); expr = m.group(2);