From 1651d4f21a51da716a7bf468620712d9573eafa6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sayed Anisul Hoque <anis016@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2019 17:52:01 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] jira: Fixes json reading string object instead of byte
 (#52660)

---
 lib/ansible/modules/web_infrastructure/jira.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/ansible/modules/web_infrastructure/jira.py b/lib/ansible/modules/web_infrastructure/jira.py
index 9912aaaf28..30c523727f 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/modules/web_infrastructure/jira.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/modules/web_infrastructure/jira.py
@@ -263,7 +263,7 @@ def request(url, user, passwd, timeout, data=None, method=None):
     body = response.read()
 
     if body:
-        return json.loads(body)
+        return json.loads(to_text(body, errors='surrogate_or_strict'))
     else:
         return {}