python-common: add a utils function to replace distutils.util.strtobool

As distutils is removed from python 3.12 ceph can no longer use the
simple conversion function once located in that module. Add our own
trivial replacement function.

Signed-off-by: John Mulligan <jmulligan@redhat.com>
(cherry picked from commit 51516ba146e9602c0dea1de65b040d737d1dab6a)

diff --git a/src/python-common/ceph/utils.py b/src/python-common/ceph/utils.py
index e92a2d1de7db8613d6e678713b7c0a3cd994020c..0544e9f4173d102fb88b6f53286f0808f0bf6eee 100644 (file)
--- a/src/python-common/ceph/utils.py
+++ b/src/python-common/ceph/utils.py
@@ -167,3 +167,18 @@ def http_req(hostname: str = '',
         log.error(e)
         # handle error here if needed
         raise
+
+
+_TRUE_VALS = {'y', 'yes', 't', 'true', 'on', '1'}
+_FALSE_VALS = {'n', 'no', 'f', 'false', 'off', '0'}
+
+
+def strtobool(value: str) -> bool:
+    """Convert a string to a boolean value.
+    Based on a simlilar function once available at distutils.util.strtobool.
+    """
+    if value.lower() in _TRUE_VALS:
+        return True
+    if value.lower() in _FALSE_VALS:
+        return False
+    raise ValueError(f'invalid truth value {value!r}')