From 194e1b7f277b5f72e1de78d3f614e7b8b6c788ac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Miguel Grinberg <miguel.grinberg@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2025 20:24:54 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Only push binary data to aiopika (Fixes #1513) (#1514)

---
 src/socketio/async_aiopika_manager.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/socketio/async_aiopika_manager.py b/src/socketio/async_aiopika_manager.py
index 1485d37..60be887 100644
--- a/src/socketio/async_aiopika_manager.py
+++ b/src/socketio/async_aiopika_manager.py
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ class AsyncAioPikaManager(AsyncPubSubManager):  # pragma: no cover
             try:
                 await self.publisher_exchange.publish(
                     aio_pika.Message(
-                        body=json.dumps(data),
+                        body=json.dumps(data).encode(),
                         delivery_mode=aio_pika.DeliveryMode.PERSISTENT
                     ), routing_key='*',
                 )