Do not try to cast value or raw data to string if not needed (#111)

Author: satterly

alertaclient/models/alert.py

@@ -26,15 +26,15 @@ def __init__(self, resource, event, **kwargs):
         self.status = kwargs.get('status', None) or "unknown"
         self.service = kwargs.get('service', None) or list()
         self.group = kwargs.get('group', None) or "Misc"
-        self.value = str(kwargs['value']) if kwargs.get('value', None) is not None else None
+        self.value = kwargs.get('value', None)
         self.text = kwargs.get('text', None) or ""
         self.tags = kwargs.get('tags', None) or list()
         self.attributes = kwargs.get('attributes', None) or dict()
         self.origin = kwargs.get('origin', None)
         self.event_type = kwargs.get('event_type', kwargs.get('type', None)) or "exceptionAlert"
         self.create_time = kwargs.get('create_time', None) or datetime.utcnow()
         self.timeout = kwargs.get('timeout', None)
-        self.raw_data = str(kwargs['raw_data']) if kwargs.get('raw_data', None) is not None else None
+        self.raw_data = kwargs.get('raw_data', None)
         self.customer = kwargs.get('customer', None)
 
         self.duplicate_count = kwargs.get('duplicate_count', None)

alertaclient/models/history.py

@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ def __init__(self, resource, event, **kwargs):
         self.status = kwargs.get('status', None)
         self.service = kwargs.get('service', None) or list()
         self.group = kwargs.get('group', None)
-        self.value = str(kwargs.get('value', None))
+        self.value = kwargs.get('value', None)
         self.text = kwargs.get('text', None)
         self.tags = kwargs.get('tags', None) or list()
         self.attributes = kwargs.get('attributes', None) or dict()