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Summary

Fixes #1261

When a user completes a sample upload with the option to report an issue to GitHub (form.report.data == 'y'), mod_upload/controllers.py fetches the repository issue template via repository.get_contents(".github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE.md").

Since migrating to PyGithub, get_contents() returns a github.ContentFile.ContentFile object rather than a dictionary. Subscripting response['content'] and response['encoding'] raises:

TypeError: 'ContentFile' object is not subscriptable

This causes an unhandled 500 Internal Server Error, preventing the issue from being created on GitHub and failing the upload redirection.

Changes

1. mod_upload/controllers.py: Used response.decoded_content.decode('utf-8') provided by PyGithub's ContentFile to decode the template string directly instead of indexing into the object and running manual base64 decoding.
2. tests/test_upload/test_controllers.py: Updated test_process to mock get_contents with an actual ContentFile instance containing decoded_content rather than a plain dictionary, preventing mock-reality drift and protecting against future regressions.

Testing & Verification

• Ran pytest tests/test_upload/test_controllers.py (all 12 tests passed).
• Verified with code quality tools: pycodestyle, isort, pydocstyle, and mypy.

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Quality Gate passed

Issues
0 New issues
0 Accepted issues

Measures
0 Security Hotspots
0.0% Coverage on New Code
0.0% Duplication on New Code

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