diff --git a/docker/api/container.py b/docker/api/container.py index 8858aa68..753e0a57 100644 --- a/docker/api/container.py +++ b/docker/api/container.py @@ -1071,7 +1071,8 @@ class ContainerApiMixin(object): Args: container (str): The container to stream statistics from decode (bool): If set to true, stream will be decoded into dicts - on the fly. False by default. + on the fly. Only applicable if ``stream`` is True. + False by default. stream (bool): If set to false, only the current stats will be returned instead of a stream. True by default. @@ -1085,6 +1086,10 @@ class ContainerApiMixin(object): return self._stream_helper(self._get(url, stream=True), decode=decode) else: + if decode: + raise errors.InvalidArgument( + "decode is only available in conjuction with stream=True" + ) return self._result(self._get(url, params={'stream': False}), json=True) diff --git a/docker/models/containers.py b/docker/models/containers.py index a3fd1a8e..493b9fc7 100644 --- a/docker/models/containers.py +++ b/docker/models/containers.py @@ -385,7 +385,8 @@ class Container(Model): Args: decode (bool): If set to true, stream will be decoded into dicts - on the fly. False by default. + on the fly. Only applicable if ``stream`` is True. + False by default. stream (bool): If set to false, only the current stats will be returned instead of a stream. True by default.