Allow to send extra attributes in Neutron related commands

To deprecate and drop support for neutronclient CLI and use only
OSC we need feature parity between OSC and neutronclient.
Last missing piece here is possibility to send in POST/PUT requests
unknown parameters to the Neutron server.
This patch adds such possibility to the OSC.

Change-Id: Iba09297c2be9fb9fa0be1b3dc65755277b79230e

1 files changed, 42 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/openstackclient/network/utils.py b/openstackclient/network/utils.py
index 287f0271..4d4d18e4 100644
--- a/openstackclient/network/utils.py
+++ b/openstackclient/network/utils.py
@@ -11,6 +11,10 @@
 #   under the License.
 #
 
+from osc_lib import exceptions
+
+from openstackclient.i18n import _
+
 
 # Transform compute security group rule for display.
 def transform_compute_security_group_rule(sg_rule):
@@ -39,3 +43,41 @@ def transform_compute_security_group_rule(sg_rule):
     else:
         info['remote_security_group'] = ''
     return info
+
+
+def str2bool(strbool):
+    if strbool is None:
+        return None
+    return strbool.lower() == 'true'
+
+
+def str2list(strlist):
+    result = []
+    if strlist:
+        result = strlist.split(';')
+    return result
+
+
+def str2dict(strdict):
+    """Convert key1:value1;key2:value2;... string into dictionary.
+
+    :param strdict: string in the form of key1:value1;key2:value2
+    """
+    result = {}
+    if not strdict:
+        return result
+    i = 0
+    kvlist = []
+    for kv in strdict.split(';'):
+        if ':' in kv:
+            kvlist.append(kv)
+            i += 1
+        elif i == 0:
+            msg = _("missing value for key '%s'")
+            raise exceptions.CommandError(msg % kv)
+        else:
+            kvlist[i - 1] = "%s;%s" % (kvlist[i - 1], kv)
+    for kv in kvlist:
+        key, sep, value = kv.partition(':')
+        result[key] = value
+    return result