Case for 503 reponse

thefactory · Aug 18, 2016 · 7f2999f · 7f2999f
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commit 7f2999f
Showing 1 changed file with 6 additions and 2 deletions.
diff --git a/marathon/exceptions.py b/marathon/exceptions.py
@@ -10,8 +10,12 @@ def __init__(self, response):
         """
         self.error_message = response.reason or ''
         if response.content:
-            content = response.json()
-            self.error_message = content.get('message', self.error_message)
+            try:
+                content = response.json()
+                self.error_message = content.get('message', self.error_message)
+            except ValueError:
+                content = response.content
+                self.error_message = content
         self.status_code = response.status_code
         super(MarathonHttpError, self).__init__(self.__str__())