[Kimchi-devel] [PATCH] [Wok] Wok utils method for converting String to Unicode and vice versa.

[Aline Manera]

On 04/13/2016 01:11 AM, archus at linux.vnet.ibm.com wrote:
> From: Archana Singh <archus at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>
> Added two utils methods which can be used to convert
> String to Unicode and Unicode to String.
> This method does the checking of instance of value passed
> and accordingly used the encode, decode, str methods.
>
> Signed-off-by: Archana Singh <archus at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
>   src/wok/utils.py | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   1 file changed, 24 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/src/wok/utils.py b/src/wok/utils.py
> index 175cf25..0e8ec05 100644
> --- a/src/wok/utils.py
> +++ b/src/wok/utils.py
> @@ -622,3 +622,27 @@ def upgrade_objectstore_schema(objstore=None, field=None):
>           wok_log.error("Cannot upgrade objectstore schema: %s" % e.args[0])
>           return False
>       return True
> +
> +
> +def encode_value(val):
> +    """
> +        Convert the value to string.
> +        If its unicode, use encode otherwise str.
> +    """
> +    if isinstance(val, unicode):
> +        return val.encode('utf-8')
> +    return str(val)
> +
> +
> +def decode_value(val):
> +    """
> +        Converts value to unicode,
> +        if its not an instance of unicode.
> +        For doing so convert the val to string,
> +        if its not instance of basestring.
> +    """

> +    if not isinstance(val, basestring):
> +        val = str(val)

Could you give an example when the above if condition is used?

> +    if not isinstance(val, unicode):
> +        val = val.decode('utf-8')
> +    return val