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+# Copyright 2016 Google Inc. All Rights Reserved.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+"""Helper that converts parameter values to the type expected by the API.
+
+Parameter values that appear in the URL and the query string are usually
+converted to native types before being passed to the backend.  This code handles
+that conversion and some validation.
+"""
+
+# pylint: disable=g-bad-name
+from __future__ import absolute_import
+
+from . import errors
+
+__all__ = ['transform_parameter_value']
+
+
+def _check_enum(parameter_name, value, parameter_config):
+  """Checks if an enum value is valid.
+
+  This is called by the transform_parameter_value function and shouldn't be
+  called directly.
+
+  This verifies that the value of an enum parameter is valid.
+
+  Args:
+    parameter_name: A string containing the name of the parameter, which is
+      either just a variable name or the name with the index appended. For
+      example 'var' or 'var[2]'.
+    value: A string containing the value passed in for the parameter.
+    parameter_config: The dictionary containing information specific to the
+      parameter in question. This is retrieved from request.parameters in
+      the method config.
+
+  Raises:
+    EnumRejectionError: If the given value is not among the accepted
+      enum values in the field parameter.
+  """
+  enum_values = [enum['backendValue']
+                 for enum in parameter_config['enum'].values()
+                 if 'backendValue' in enum]
+  if value not in enum_values:
+    raise errors.EnumRejectionError(parameter_name, value, enum_values)
+
+
+def _check_boolean(parameter_name, value, parameter_config):
+  """Checks if a boolean value is valid.
+
+  This is called by the transform_parameter_value function and shouldn't be
+  called directly.
+
+  This checks that the string value passed in can be converted to a valid
+  boolean value.
+
+  Args:
+    parameter_name: A string containing the name of the parameter, which is
+      either just a variable name or the name with the index appended. For
+      example 'var' or 'var[2]'.
+    value: A string containing the value passed in for the parameter.
+    parameter_config: The dictionary containing information specific to the
+      parameter in question. This is retrieved from request.parameters in
+      the method config.
+
+  Raises:
+    BasicTypeParameterError: If the given value is not a valid boolean
+      value.
+  """
+  if parameter_config.get('type') != 'boolean':
+    return
+
+  if value.lower() not in ('1', 'true', '0', 'false'):
+    raise errors.BasicTypeParameterError(parameter_name, value, 'boolean')
+
+
+def _convert_boolean(value):
+  """Convert a string to a boolean value the same way the server does.
+
+  This is called by the transform_parameter_value function and shouldn't be
+  called directly.
+
+  Args:
+    value: A string value to be converted to a boolean.
+
+  Returns:
+    True or False, based on whether the value in the string would be interpreted
+    as true or false by the server.  In the case of an invalid entry, this
+    returns False.
+  """
+  if value.lower() in ('1', 'true'):
+    return True
+  return False
+
+
+# Map to convert parameters from strings to their desired back-end format.
+# Anything not listed here will remain a string.  Note that the server
+# keeps int64 and uint64 as strings when passed to the backend.
+# This maps a type name from the .api method configuration to a (validation
+# function, conversion function, descriptive type name) tuple.  The
+# descriptive type name is only used in conversion error messages, and the
+# names here are chosen to match the error messages from the server.
+# Note that the 'enum' entry is special cased.  Enums have 'type': 'string',
+# so we have special case code to recognize them and use the 'enum' map
+# entry.
+_PARAM_CONVERSION_MAP = {'boolean': (_check_boolean,
+                                     _convert_boolean,
+                                     'boolean'),
+                         'int32': (None, int, 'integer'),
+                         'uint32': (None, int, 'integer'),
+                         'float': (None, float, 'float'),
+                         'double': (None, float, 'double'),
+                         'enum': (_check_enum, None, None)}
+
+
+def _get_parameter_conversion_entry(parameter_config):
+  """Get information needed to convert the given parameter to its API type.
+
+  Args:
+    parameter_config: The dictionary containing information specific to the
+      parameter in question. This is retrieved from request.parameters in the
+      method config.
+
+  Returns:
+    The entry from _PARAM_CONVERSION_MAP with functions/information needed to
+    validate and convert the given parameter from a string to the type expected
+    by the API.
+  """
+  entry = _PARAM_CONVERSION_MAP.get(parameter_config.get('type'))
+
+  # Special handling for enum parameters.  An enum's type is 'string', so we
+  # need to detect them by the presence of an 'enum' property in their
+  # configuration.
+  if entry is None and 'enum' in parameter_config:
+    entry = _PARAM_CONVERSION_MAP['enum']
+
+  return entry
+
+
+def transform_parameter_value(parameter_name, value, parameter_config):
+  """Validates and transforms parameters to the type expected by the API.
+
+  If the value is a list this will recursively call _transform_parameter_value
+  on the values in the list. Otherwise, it checks all parameter rules for the
+  the current value and converts its type from a string to whatever format
+  the API expects.
+
+  In the list case, '[index-of-value]' is appended to the parameter name for
+  error reporting purposes.
+
+  Args:
+    parameter_name: A string containing the name of the parameter, which is
+      either just a variable name or the name with the index appended, in the
+      recursive case. For example 'var' or 'var[2]'.
+    value: A string or list of strings containing the value(s) passed in for
+      the parameter.  These are the values from the request, to be validated,
+      transformed, and passed along to the backend.
+    parameter_config: The dictionary containing information specific to the
+      parameter in question. This is retrieved from request.parameters in the
+      method config.
+
+  Returns:
+    The converted parameter value(s).  Not all types are converted, so this
+    may be the same string that's passed in.
+  """
+  if isinstance(value, list):
+    # We're only expecting to handle path and query string parameters here.
+    # The way path and query string parameters are passed in, they'll likely
+    # only be single values or singly-nested lists (no lists nested within
+    # lists).  But even if there are nested lists, we'd want to preserve that
+    # structure.  These recursive calls should preserve it and convert all
+    # parameter values.  See the docstring for information about the parameter
+    # renaming done here.
+    return [transform_parameter_value('%s[%d]' % (parameter_name, index),
+                                      element, parameter_config)
+            for index, element in enumerate(value)]
+
+  # Validate and convert the parameter value.
+  entry = _get_parameter_conversion_entry(parameter_config)
+  if entry:
+    validation_func, conversion_func, type_name = entry
+    if validation_func:
+      validation_func(parameter_name, value, parameter_config)
+    if conversion_func:
+      try:
+        return conversion_func(value)
+      except ValueError:
+        raise errors.BasicTypeParameterError(parameter_name, value, type_name)
+
+  return value