true portable binary type

Author: aogier

modules/swagger-codegen/src/main/java/io/swagger/codegen/languages/PythonClientCodegen.java

@@ -72,6 +72,7 @@ public PythonClientCodegen() {
         languageSpecificPrimitives.add("datetime");
         languageSpecificPrimitives.add("date");
         languageSpecificPrimitives.add("object");
+        languageSpecificPrimitives.add("binary_type");
 
         typeMapping.clear();
         typeMapping.put("integer", "int");
@@ -89,8 +90,8 @@ public PythonClientCodegen() {
         typeMapping.put("file", "file");
         // TODO binary should be mapped to byte array
         // mapped to String as a workaround
-        typeMapping.put("binary", "str");
-        typeMapping.put("ByteArray", "str");
+        typeMapping.put("binary", "binary_type");
+        typeMapping.put("ByteArray", "binary_type");
         // map uuid to string for the time being
         typeMapping.put("UUID", "str");
 

modules/swagger-codegen/src/main/resources/python/api_client.mustache

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ from multiprocessing.pool import ThreadPool
 from datetime import date, datetime
 
 # python 2 and python 3 compatibility library
-from six import PY3, integer_types, iteritems, text_type
+from six import PY3, integer_types, iteritems, text_type, binary_type
 from six.moves.urllib.parse import quote
 
 from . import models
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ class ApiClient(object):
         'date': date,
         'datetime': datetime,
         'object': object,
+        'binary_type': binary_type,
     }
 
     def __init__(self, configuration=None, header_name=None, header_value=None, cookie=None):