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+#
+# Module that parses constraints
+#
+# The current version of juju core expects the client to take
+# constraints given in the form "mem=10G foo=bar" and parse them into
+# json that looks like {"mem": 10240, "foo": "bar"}. This module helps us
+# accomplish that task.
+#
+# We do not attempt to duplicate the checking done in
+# client/_client.py:Value here. That class will verify that the
+# constraints keys are valid, and that we can successfully dump the
+# constraints dict to json.
+#
+# Once https://bugs.launchpad.net/juju/+bug/1645402 is addressed, this
+# module should be deprecated.
+#
+
+import re
+
+# Matches on a string specifying memory size
+MEM = re.compile('^[1-9][0-9]*[MGTP]$')
+
+# Multiplication factors to get Megabytes
+# https://github.com/juju/juju/blob/master/constraints/constraints.go#L666
+FACTORS = {
+ "M": 1,
+ "G": 1024,
+ "T": 1024 * 1024,
+ "P": 1024 * 1024 * 1024
+}
+
+SNAKE1 = re.compile(r'(.)([A-Z][a-z]+)')
+SNAKE2 = re.compile('([a-z0-9])([A-Z])')
+
+
+def parse(constraints):
+ """
+ Constraints must be expressed as a string containing only spaces
+ and key value pairs joined by an '='.
+
+ """
+ if not constraints:
+ return None
+
+ if type(constraints) is dict:
+ # Fowards compatibilty: already parsed
+ return constraints
+
+ constraints = {
+ normalize_key(k): normalize_value(v) for k, v in [
+ s.split("=") for s in constraints.split(" ")]}
+
+ return constraints
+
+
+def normalize_key(key):
+ key = key.strip()
+
+ key = key.replace("-", "_") # Our _client lib wants "_" in place of "-"
+
+ # Convert camelCase to snake_case
+ key = SNAKE1.sub(r'\1_\2', key)
+ key = SNAKE2.sub(r'\1_\2', key).lower()
+
+ return key
+
+
+def normalize_value(value):
+ value = value.strip()
+
+ if MEM.match(value):
+ # Translate aliases to Megabytes. e.g. 1G = 10240
+ return int(value[:-1]) * FACTORS[value[-1:]]
+
+ if "," in value:
+ # Handle csv strings.
+ values = value.split(",")
+ values = [normalize_value(v) for v in values]
+ return values
+
+ if value.isdigit():
+ return int(value)
+
+ return value