From 1e9aa69268b6d2f0cec5ccb7b8474871c3a4e1ba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: ishaan-jaff <ishaanjaffer0324@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2023 20:24:31 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] (fix) proxy: use orjson.loads()

---
 litellm/proxy/proxy_server.py | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/litellm/proxy/proxy_server.py b/litellm/proxy/proxy_server.py
index 75c51cdc35..c57c212ca2 100644
--- a/litellm/proxy/proxy_server.py
+++ b/litellm/proxy/proxy_server.py
@@ -785,8 +785,8 @@ async def embeddings(request: Request, user_api_key_dict: dict = Depends(user_ap
     try: 
 
         # Use orjson to parse JSON data, orjson speeds up requests significantly
-        data_bytes = await request.body()
-        data = orjson.loads(data_bytes.decode('utf-8'))
+        body = await request.body()
+        data = orjson.loads(body)
 
         data["model"] = (
             general_settings.get("embedding_model", None) # server default