From 972d42531c64b0bb0e7cc82cfd3252d940075ecc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: evilchili <evilchili@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2025 16:17:43 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] conditional encoding

---
 src/grung/types.py | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/grung/types.py b/src/grung/types.py
index 2becdc7..2c67954 100644
--- a/src/grung/types.py
+++ b/src/grung/types.py
@@ -304,7 +304,9 @@ class FilePointer(Field):
         relpath = self.relpath(record)
         path = db.path / relpath
         path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
-        path.write_bytes(record[self.name])
+        path.write_bytes(
+            record[self.name] if isinstance(record[self.name], FilePointer.value_type) else record[self.name].encode()
+        )
         record[self.name] = str(relpath)