Fix for ascii decode in DataSourceAzure (LP: #1422993).

2 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/tests/unittests/helpers.py b/tests/unittests/helpers.py
index ce77af93..7516bd02 100644
--- a/tests/unittests/helpers.py
+++ b/tests/unittests/helpers.py
@@ -287,10 +287,11 @@ def populate_dir(path, files):
     if not os.path.exists(path):
         os.makedirs(path)
     for (name, content) in files.items():
-        with open(os.path.join(path, name), "w") as fp:
-            fp.write(content)
+        with open(os.path.join(path, name), "wb") as fp:
+            fp.write(content.encode('utf-8'))
             fp.close()
 
+
 try:
     skipIf = unittest.skipIf
 except AttributeError:
diff --git a/tests/unittests/test_datasource/test_azure.py b/tests/unittests/test_datasource/test_azure.py
index 965bce4b..38d70fcd 100644
--- a/tests/unittests/test_datasource/test_azure.py
+++ b/tests/unittests/test_datasource/test_azure.py
@@ -360,6 +360,12 @@ class TestAzureDataSource(TestCase):
         self.assertTrue(os.path.exists(ovf_env_path))
         self.assertEqual(xml, load_file(ovf_env_path))
 
+    def test_ovf_can_include_unicode(self):
+        xml = construct_valid_ovf_env(data={})
+        xml = u'\ufeff{0}'.format(xml)
+        dsrc = self._get_ds({'ovfcontent': xml})
+        dsrc.get_data()
+
     def test_existing_ovf_same(self):
         # waagent/SharedConfig left alone if found ovf-env.xml same as cached
         odata = {'UserData': b64e("SOMEUSERDATA")}