From 9fa31bd034f63424ab8910d998d9afd8a4411cd5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: philippeitis <33013301+philippeitis@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2022 15:44:48 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Don't call .to_string() on string values

---
 src/generator/lib/util.py | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/generator/lib/util.py b/src/generator/lib/util.py
index d25476c56d..7e766a2e17 100644
--- a/src/generator/lib/util.py
+++ b/src/generator/lib/util.py
@@ -1222,8 +1222,9 @@ def string_impl(p):
         "byte": lambda x: f"::client::serde::urlsafe_base64::to_string(&{x})",
         "google-datetime": lambda x: f"::client::serde::datetime_to_string(&{x})",
         "date-time": lambda x: f"::client::serde::datetime_to_string(&{x})",
-        "google-fieldmask": lambda x: f"{x}.to_string()"
-    }.get(p.get("format"), lambda x: f"{x}.to_string()")
+        "google-fieldmask": lambda x: f"{x}.to_string()",
+        "string": lambda x: x
+    }.get(p.get("format", p["type"]), lambda x: f"{x}.to_string()")
 
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':