Added __unicode__ and __str__ to GsxObject

2 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/gsxws/core.py b/gsxws/core.py
index eaf241d..b3c0d8b 100644
--- a/gsxws/core.py
+++ b/gsxws/core.py
@@ -392,6 +392,12 @@ class GsxObject(object):
 
         return root
 
+    def __unicode__(self):
+        return ET.tostring(self.to_xml('root'), encoding='UTF-8')
+
+    def __str__(self):
+        return unicode(self).encode('utf-8')
+
 
 class GsxRequestObject(GsxObject):
     "The GSX-friendly representation of this GsxObject"
diff --git a/tests/test_gsxws.py b/tests/test_gsxws.py
index 432ed64..bee83b0 100644
--- a/tests/test_gsxws.py
+++ b/tests/test_gsxws.py
@@ -20,6 +20,12 @@ class RemoteTestCase(TestCase):
                 env['GSX_ENV'])
 
 
+class TestCoreFunctions(TestCase):
+    def test_dump(self):
+        r = repairs.Repair(blaa='test')
+        self.assertRegexpMatches(str(r), '<root><blaa>test</blaa></root>')
+
+
 class TestErrorFunctions(TestCase):
     def setUp(self):
         xml = open('tests/fixtures/multierror.xml', 'r').read()