Merge pull request #4534 from rzimmerdev/main

Adapted input parameters type restriction for json.loads function - fixes #4519

CHANGES.rst

@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ Version 2.1.2
 
 Unreleased
 
+-   Fix type annotation for ``json.loads``, it accepts str or bytes.
+    :issue:`4519`
+
 
 Version 2.1.1
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src/flask/json/__init__.py

@@ -153,7 +153,11 @@ def dump(
     _json.dump(obj, fp, **kwargs)
 
 
-def loads(s: str, app: t.Optional["Flask"] = None, **kwargs: t.Any) -> t.Any:
+def loads(
+    s: t.Union[str, bytes],
+    app: t.Optional["Flask"] = None,
+    **kwargs: t.Any,
+) -> t.Any:
     """Deserialize an object from a string of JSON.
 
     Takes the same arguments as the built-in :func:`json.loads`, with