Check unicode for string

Change-Id: I2d647a82fa38b1ef9ee5b8a2d80296f069e2f079
Issue-ID: INT-1064
Signed-off-by: Yang Xu <yang.xu3@huawei.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/robotframework-onap/eteutils/JSONUtils.py b/robotframework-onap/eteutils/JSONUtils.py
index e5de182..2d0868c 100644
--- a/robotframework-onap/eteutils/JSONUtils.py
+++ b/robotframework-onap/eteutils/JSONUtils.py
@@ -7,11 +7,11 @@ class JSONUtils:
     
     def json_equals(self, left, right):
         """JSON Equals takes in two strings or json objects, converts them into json if needed and then compares them, returning if they are equal or not."""
-        if isinstance(left, str):
+        if isinstance(left, str) or isinstance(left, unicode):
             left_json = json.loads(left);
         else:
             left_json = left;
-        if isinstance(right, str):
+        if isinstance(right, str) or isinstance(right, unicode):
             right_json = json.loads(right);
         else:
             right_json = right;