From: Alfredo Deza <adeza@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2018 15:13:19 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: ceph-volume util create a helper for converting to bytes
X-Git-Tag: v12.2.8~106^2~3
X-Git-Url: http://git-server-git.apps.pok.os.sepia.ceph.com/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1053aac7b0230e92032f8e035348687dd7982f74;p=ceph.git

ceph-volume util create a helper for converting to bytes

Signed-off-by: Alfredo Deza <adeza@redhat.com>
(cherry picked from commit fb518165445479cf08eefc8a2755ad78dcafd07f)
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diff --git a/src/ceph-volume/ceph_volume/util/__init__.py b/src/ceph-volume/ceph_volume/util/__init__.py
index 0222d56a0791f..dfa83fc46d35f 100644
--- a/src/ceph-volume/ceph_volume/util/__init__.py
+++ b/src/ceph-volume/ceph_volume/util/__init__.py
@@ -16,6 +16,16 @@ def as_string(string):
     return string
 
 
+def as_bytes(string):
+    """
+    Ensure that whatever type of string is incoming, it is returned as bytes,
+    encoding to utf-8 otherwise
+    """
+    if isinstance(string, bytes):
+        return string
+    return string.encode('utf-8', errors='ignore')
+
+
 def str_to_int(string, round_down=True):
     """
     Parses a string number into an integer, optionally converting to a float