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Diffstat (limited to 'ceilometerclient/common')
| -rw-r--r-- | ceilometerclient/common/utils.py | 21 |
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/ceilometerclient/common/utils.py b/ceilometerclient/common/utils.py index 2628ca0..db7b042 100644 --- a/ceilometerclient/common/utils.py +++ b/ceilometerclient/common/utils.py @@ -154,6 +154,27 @@ def args_array_to_dict(kwargs, key_to_convert): return kwargs +def args_array_to_list_of_dicts(kwargs, key_to_convert): + """Converts ['a=1;b=2','c=3;d=4'] to [{a:1,b:2},{c:3,d:4}] + """ + values_to_convert = kwargs.get(key_to_convert) + if values_to_convert: + try: + kwargs[key_to_convert] = [] + for lst in values_to_convert: + pairs = lst.split(";") + dct = dict() + for pair in pairs: + kv = pair.split("=", 1) + dct[kv[0]] = kv[1].strip(" \"'") # strip spaces and quotes + kwargs[key_to_convert].append(dct) + except Exception: + raise exc.CommandError( + '%s must be a list of key1=value1;key2=value2;... not "%s"' % ( + key_to_convert, values_to_convert)) + return kwargs + + def key_with_slash_to_nested_dict(kwargs): nested_kwargs = {} for k in list(kwargs): |