Add workaround for orjson not handling subclasses of str (#105314)

Co-authored-by: Franck Nijhof <git@frenck.dev>

homeassistant/util/json.py

@@ -33,9 +33,17 @@ class SerializationError(HomeAssistantError):
     """Error serializing the data to JSON."""
 
 
-json_loads: Callable[[bytes | bytearray | memoryview | str], JsonValueType]
+def json_loads(__obj: bytes | bytearray | memoryview | str) -> JsonValueType:
-json_loads = orjson.loads
+    """Parse JSON data.
-"""Parse JSON data."""
+
+    This adds a workaround for orjson not handling subclasses of str,
+    https://github.com/ijl/orjson/issues/445.
+    """
+    if type(__obj) in (bytes, bytearray, memoryview, str):
+        return orjson.loads(__obj)  # type:ignore[no-any-return]
+    if isinstance(__obj, str):
+        return orjson.loads(str(__obj))  # type:ignore[no-any-return]
+    return orjson.loads(__obj)  # type:ignore[no-any-return]
 
 
 def json_loads_array(__obj: bytes | bytearray | memoryview | str) -> JsonArrayType:

tests/util/test_json.py

@@ -1,10 +1,12 @@
 """Test Home Assistant json utility functions."""
 from pathlib import Path
 
+import orjson
 import pytest
 
 from homeassistant.exceptions import HomeAssistantError
 from homeassistant.util.json import (
+    json_loads,
     json_loads_array,
     json_loads_object,
     load_json,
@@ -153,3 +155,20 @@ async def test_deprecated_save_json(
     save_json(fname, TEST_JSON_A)
     assert "uses save_json from homeassistant.util.json" in caplog.text
     assert "should be updated to use homeassistant.helpers.json module" in caplog.text
+
+
+async def test_loading_derived_class():
+    """Test loading data from classes derived from str."""
+
+    class MyStr(str):
+        pass
+
+    class MyBytes(bytes):
+        pass
+
+    assert json_loads('"abc"') == "abc"
+    assert json_loads(MyStr('"abc"')) == "abc"
+
+    assert json_loads(b'"abc"') == "abc"
+    with pytest.raises(orjson.JSONDecodeError):
+        assert json_loads(MyBytes(b'"abc"')) == "abc"