From 3e1879e47376fc8ef27367a0d864391cfdda9926 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tony Mack <tmack@cs.princeton.edu>
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:45:19 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] api.getCredential should always return a string not an object

---
 sfa/plc/api.py | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sfa/plc/api.py b/sfa/plc/api.py
index 855b0a9b..01cd8e2d 100644
--- a/sfa/plc/api.py
+++ b/sfa/plc/api.py
@@ -170,7 +170,6 @@ class GeniAPI:
         else:
             return self.getCredentialFromRegistry()
     
-
     def getCredentialFromRegistry(self):
         """ 
         Get our credential from a remote registry using a geniclient connection
@@ -181,7 +180,7 @@ class GeniAPI:
         cred_filename = path + os.sep + filename
         try:
             credential = Credential(filename = cred_filename)
-            return credential
+            return credential.save_to_string(save_parents=True)
         except IOError:
             from sfa.server.registry import Registries
             registries = Registries(self)
-- 
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