[cuegui] Fix preview frames error

[ramonfigueiredo]

Related Issues

• [cuegui] Cuetopia > Monitor Jobs preview frames fails with "write() argument must be str, not bytes" #2390

Summarize your change.

• Decode HTTP playlist response to str
• Fixes "write() argument must be str, not bytes" Preview Error

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The PreviewProcessorDialog.process() method now decodes the HTTP response body to UTF-8 text before passing it to XML parsing, changing from raw bytes to a string input type.

Changes

HTTP Response Decoding

Layer / File(s)	Summary
HTTP Response Decoding for XML Parsing cuegui/cuegui/PreviewWidget.py	The preview server response body is decoded from bytes to UTF-8 string via .decode('utf-8'), ensuring the subsequent XML parser receives a properly formatted string input.

Estimated code review effort

🎯 2 (Simple) | ⏱️ ~5 minutes

Poem

A single byte was changed with care,
From raw bytes floating through the air,
Now UTF-8 strings dance with glee,
The XML parser reads happily! 🐰✨

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title directly relates to the main change: fixing a preview frames error by decoding the HTTP response from bytes to UTF-8 string to resolve a write() argument type error.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
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