Non-json type response JSON parse error (eg: PDF/XLSX report)

[nb-programmer]

In the Reports API, Clockify accepts the "exportType" payload field which can have, apart from JSON, response in CSV, PDF or XLSX format. Since AbstractClockify class' methods always parses to JSON, it is impossible to retrieve the raw binary data of the exported report.

Possible solution: Add optional arguments in (some) methods to make the Clockify class methods return the raw response object.

Example:

REPORT_OPTS = {
    "dateRangeStart": "2022-06-28T00:00:00.000",
    "dateRangeEnd": "2022-07-02T23:59:59.000",
    "summaryFilter": {
        "groups": [
            "USER",
            "PROJECT",
            "TIMEENTRY"
        ],

        "sortColumn": "GROUP"
    },
    "exportType": "PDF"
}

client = ClockifyAPIClient().build(API_KEY, API_URL)
print(client.reports.get_summary_report(CLOCKIFY_WORKSPACE_ID, REPORT_OPTS))

Output:

ERROR:root:API error: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "...", line 30, in <module>
    print(client.reports.get_summary_report(CLOCKIFY_WORKSPACE, REPORT_OPTS))
  File "C:\Users\[]\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\clockify_api_client\models\report.py", line 22, in get_summary_report
    raise e
  File "C:\Users\[]\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\clockify_api_client\models\report.py", line 19, in get_summary_report
    return self.post(url, payload)
  File "C:\Users\[]\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\clockify_api_client\abstract_clockify.py", 
line 22, in post
    return response.json()
  File "C:\Users\[]\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\requests\models.py", line 910, in json     
    return complexjson.loads(self.text, **kwargs)
...snip...
  File "C:\Users\[]\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\json\decoder.py", line 355, in raw_decode
    raise JSONDecodeError("Expecting value", s, err.value) from None
json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)