Add str() guards to request_id before validation

CHANGELOG.asciidoc

@@ -24,13 +24,14 @@ image::https://raw.githubusercontent.com/apache/tinkerpop/master/docs/static/ima
 === TinkerPop 3.6.7 (NOT OFFICIALLY RELEASED YET)
 
 * Fixed a bug in Gremlin.Net for .NET 8 that led to exceptions: `InvalidOperationException: Enumeration has not started. Call MoveNext.`
+* Fixed message requestId serialization in `gremlin-python`.
 * Improved error message from `JavaTranslator` by including exception source.
-* Added missing `short` serialization (`gx:Int16`) to GraphSONV2 and GraphSONV3 in `gremlin-python`
+* Added missing `short` serialization (`gx:Int16`) to GraphSONV2 and GraphSONV3 in `gremlin-python`.
 * Added tests for error handling for GLV's if tx.commit() is called remotely for graphs without transactions support.
 * Introduced multi-architecture AMD64/ARM64 docker images for gremlin-console.
 * Fixed bug in `JavaTranslator` where `has(String, null)` could call `has(String, Traversal)` to generate an error.
 * Fixed issue where server errors weren't being properly parsed when sending bytecode over HTTP.
-* Improved bulkset contains check for elements if all elements in bulkset are of the same type
+* Improved bulkset contains check for elements if all elements in bulkset are of the same type.
 * Fixed bug in `EarlyLimitStrategy` which was too aggressive when promoting `limit()` before `map()`.
 
 [[release-3-6-6]]

gremlin-python/src/main/python/gremlin_python/driver/connection.py

@@ -58,10 +58,11 @@ def close(self):
     def write(self, request_message):
         if not self._inited:
             self.connect()
-        request_id = str(uuid.uuid4())
         if request_message.args.get("requestId"):
-            request_id = request_message.args.get("requestId")
-            uuid.UUID(request_id) # Checks for proper UUID or else server will return an error.
+            request_id = str(request_message.args.get("requestId"))
+            uuid.UUID(request_id)  # Checks for proper UUID or else server will return an error.
+        else:
+            request_id = str(uuid.uuid4())
         result_set = resultset.ResultSet(queue.Queue(), request_id)
         self._results[request_id] = result_set
         # Create write task

gremlin-python/src/main/python/gremlin_python/driver/serializer.py

@@ -240,7 +240,7 @@ def build_message(self, request_id, processor, op, args):
     def finalize_message(self, message, mime_len, mime_type):
         ba = bytearray()
 
-        request_id = uuid.UUID(message['requestId'])
+        request_id = uuid.UUID(str(message['requestId']))
         ba.extend(self.header_pack(mime_len, mime_type, 0x81,
                                    (request_id.int >> 64) & self.max_int64, request_id.int & self.max_int64))