From 88f864036b8d989136f19014468feee53c10426c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Paul=20Gla=C3=9F?= <paul.glass@rohde-schwarz.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2022 15:23:59 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Fixed string conversion from bytes

---
 netflow/ipfix.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/netflow/ipfix.py b/netflow/ipfix.py
index a0cb6e0..bb68069 100644
--- a/netflow/ipfix.py
+++ b/netflow/ipfix.py
@@ -770,7 +770,7 @@ class IPFIXDataRecord:
             if type(value) is bytes:
                 # Check if value is raw bytes, so no conversion happened in struct.unpack
                 if field_datatype in ["string"]:
-                    value = str(value)
+                    value = value.decode()
                 # TODO: handle octetArray (= does not have to be unicode encoded)
                 elif field_datatype in ["boolean"]:
                     value = True if value == 1 else False  # 2 = false per RFC