fix: catch invalid type used to initialize RESTObject

Sometimes we have errors where we don't get a dictionary passed to
RESTObject.__init__() method. This breaks things but in confusing
ways.

Check in the __init__() method and raise an exception if it occurs.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tests/unit/test_base.py b/tests/unit/test_base.py
index b3a58fc..8872dbd 100644
--- a/tests/unit/test_base.py
+++ b/tests/unit/test_base.py
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ import pickle
 
 import pytest
 
+import gitlab
 from gitlab import base
 
 
@@ -85,6 +86,10 @@ class TestRESTObject:
         assert fake_manager == obj.manager
         assert fake_gitlab == obj.manager.gitlab
 
+    def test_instantiate_non_dict(self, fake_gitlab, fake_manager):
+        with pytest.raises(gitlab.exceptions.GitlabParsingError):
+            FakeObject(fake_manager, ["a", "list", "fails"])
+
     def test_picklability(self, fake_manager):
         obj = FakeObject(fake_manager, {"foo": "bar"})
         original_obj_module = obj._module