• Can we support different encodings for get? I think we just need a new argument (already made local change and it works).
• On top of that, when json_ietf_val is a bytes string, we hit json.decoder.JSONDecodeError exception. Example:

json_ietf_val = b'DIRECTLY_CONNECTED'

This could be a simple fix as well, which I've made locally and it works.

Thank you for the awesome library!