danneaves-ee opened a new issue #20901:
URL: https://github.com/apache/airflow/issues/20901
### Apache Airflow Provider(s)
google
### Versions of Apache Airflow Providers
```
$ pip freeze | grep apache-airflow-providers
apache-airflow-providers-ftp==2.0.1
apache-airflow-providers-google==6.3.0
apache-airflow-providers-http==2.0.2
apache-airflow-providers-imap==2.1.0
apache-airflow-providers-pagerduty==2.1.0
apache-airflow-providers-sftp==2.4.0
apache-airflow-providers-sqlite==2.0.1
apache-airflow-providers-ssh==2.3.0
```
### Apache Airflow version
2.2.3 (latest released)
### Operating System
Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS
### Deployment
Composer
### Deployment details
_No response_
### What happened
Using
`airflow.providers.google.cloud.transfers.gcs_to_local.GCSToLocalFilesystemOperator`
to load the contents of a file into `xcom` unexpectedly casts the file bytes
to string.
### What you expected to happen
`GCSToLocalFilesystemOperator` should not cast to string
### How to reproduce
Store a file on gcs;
```
Hello World!
```
Read file to xcom
```
my_task = GCSToLocalFilesystemOperator(
task_id='my_task',
bucket=bucket,
object_name=object_path,
store_to_xcom_key='my_xcom_key',
)
```
Access via jinja;
```
{{ ti.xcom_pull(task_ids="my_task", key="my_xcom_key") }}
```
XCom result is;
```
b'Hello World!'
```
### Anything else
_No response_
### Are you willing to submit PR?
- [X] Yes I am willing to submit a PR!
### Code of Conduct
- [X] I agree to follow this project's [Code of
Conduct](https://github.com/apache/airflow/blob/main/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md)
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