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Fixes binary file upload to Vertex AI (UnicodeDecodeError when uploading PDFs/images)
Pre-Submission checklist
tests/litellm/directorymake test-unitType
🐛 Bug Fix
Changes
Fixed
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xffwhen uploading binary files (PDFs, images) to Vertex AI via the/filesendpoint.Root cause: The file upload handler was calling
.decode("utf-8")on binary file content before sending to httpx, which fails for non-UTF-8 binary data.Fix:
.decode("utf-8")call - httpx accepts bytes directlydata=tocontent=- the correct httpx parameter for raw body contentcreate_file) and async (async_create_file) code paths