SQS doesn't round trip messages about moto HOT 2 CLOSED

Wow, this was a fun bug.

It appears that boto will write your messages to SQS two different ways depending on which api you use (connection vs queue methods). One will write the messages unmodified, but the other will write them to SQS base-64 encoded.

I can't find any reference to SQS SendMessage accepting base-64 encoded bodies. Regardless of how the message is input though, SQS returns the 'smart' value.

>>> q = conn.create_queue('testqueue')

>>> q.write(q.new_message('Zm9vIGJhciBiYXo='))
<boto.sqs.message.Message instance at 0x10added88>

>>> message = q.read(1)

>>> message.get_body()
'foo bar baz'

I suppose the correct solution is to add a base64 detector to the moto send_message view.

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My previous remarks on sqs autodecoding were incorrect(the queue I was using for testing got messed up).

The bug was caused by my misunderstanding of where base64 encoding/decoding occurs. I believe this led to some of the initial confusion.

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