diff --git a/pymisp/api.py b/pymisp/api.py
index f902ef2..981779f 100644
--- a/pymisp/api.py
+++ b/pymisp/api.py
@@ -995,8 +995,8 @@ class PyMISP(object):
         """Helper to prepare a search query"""
         if query.get('error') is not None:
             return query
-        if controller not in ['events', 'attributes']:
-            raise Exception('Invalid controller. Can only be {}'.format(', '.join(['events', 'attributes'])))
+        if controller not in ['events', 'attributes', 'objects']:
+            raise ValueError('Invalid controller. Can only be {}'.format(', '.join(['events', 'attributes', 'objects'])))
         url = urljoin(self.root_url, '{}/{}'.format(controller, path.lstrip('/')))
 
         if ASYNC_OK and async_callback:
diff --git a/pymisp/mispevent.py b/pymisp/mispevent.py
index 3199613..a0b71b1 100644
--- a/pymisp/mispevent.py
+++ b/pymisp/mispevent.py
@@ -435,7 +435,7 @@ class MISPEvent(AbstractMISP):
         if hasattr(json_event, 'read'):
             # python2 and python3 compatible to find if we have a file
             json_event = json_event.read()
-        if isinstance(json_event, basestring):
+        if isinstance(json_event, (basestring, bytes)):
             json_event = json.loads(json_event)
         if json_event.get('response'):
             event = json_event.get('response')[0]
diff --git a/tests/mispevent_testfiles/event_obj_attr_tag.json b/tests/mispevent_testfiles/event_obj_attr_tag.json
index 331bfc0..a258993 100644
--- a/tests/mispevent_testfiles/event_obj_attr_tag.json
+++ b/tests/mispevent_testfiles/event_obj_attr_tag.json
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
         "name": "file",
         "sharing_group_id": 0,
         "template_uuid": "688c46fb-5edb-40a3-8273-1af7923e2215",
-        "template_version": 12,
+        "template_version": 13,
         "uuid": "a"
       },
       {
diff --git a/tests/mispevent_testfiles/event_obj_def_param.json b/tests/mispevent_testfiles/event_obj_def_param.json
index 137617d..720a1f9 100644
--- a/tests/mispevent_testfiles/event_obj_def_param.json
+++ b/tests/mispevent_testfiles/event_obj_def_param.json
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
         "name": "file",
         "sharing_group_id": 0,
         "template_uuid": "688c46fb-5edb-40a3-8273-1af7923e2215",
-        "template_version": 12,
+        "template_version": 13,
         "uuid": "a"
       },
       {
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
         "name": "file",
         "sharing_group_id": 0,
         "template_uuid": "688c46fb-5edb-40a3-8273-1af7923e2215",
-        "template_version": 12,
+        "template_version": 13,
         "uuid": "b"
       }
     ]