From 9a258be2d75531f8af049e311ff4580612ff7aa1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeremy Zhang <jkzhang@uw.edu>
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2017 17:44:10 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Decode value in getbucket after checking that it is not none

---
 webapp/titanembeds/discordrest.py | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/webapp/titanembeds/discordrest.py b/webapp/titanembeds/discordrest.py
index cf31dae..6695271 100644
--- a/webapp/titanembeds/discordrest.py
+++ b/webapp/titanembeds/discordrest.py
@@ -25,7 +25,9 @@ class DiscordREST:
             self._set_bucket("global_limit_expire", 0)
 
     def _get_bucket(self, key):
-        value = redis_store.get(self.global_redis_prefix + key).decode("utf-8")
+        value = redis_store.get(self.global_redis_prefix + key)
+        if value:
+            value = value.decode("utf-8")
         return value
 
     def _set_bucket(self, key, value):