fix xml2dixt and dict2xml

software releases expects _ parameter to be a string with JSON inside
not a python dict so we partially revert 2acef14b
and we do the nice printing of JSON parameters in getInformation

slapos/slap/slap.py

@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ import logging
 import re
 from functools import wraps
 
+import ast
 import six
 
 from .exception import ResourceNotReady, ServerError, NotFoundError, \
@@ -279,13 +280,17 @@ class OpenOrder(SlapRequester):
       setattr(software_instance, '_%s' % key, value)
 
     if raw_information["data"].get("text_content", None) is not None:
-      setattr(software_instance, '_parameter_dict', xml2dict(unicode2str(raw_information["data"]['text_content'])))
+      result_dict = xml2dict(unicode2str(raw_information["data"]['text_content']))
+      if len(result_dict) == 1 and '_' in result_dict:
+        # use ast.literal_eval instead of json.loads because the string contains single quote
+        result_dict['_'] = ast.literal_eval(result_dict['_'])
+      software_instance._parameter_dict = result_dict
     else:
-      setattr(software_instance, '_parameter_dict', {})
+      software_instance._parameter_dict = {}
 
-    setattr(software_instance, '_requested_state', raw_information["data"]['slap_state'])
-    setattr(software_instance, '_connection_dict', raw_information["data"]['connection_parameter_list'])
-    setattr(software_instance, '_software_release_url', raw_information["data"]['url_string'])
+    software_instance._requested_state = raw_information["data"]['slap_state']
+    software_instance._connection_dict = raw_information["data"]['connection_parameter_list']
+    software_instance._software_release_url = raw_information["data"]['url_string']
     return software_instance
 
   def requestComputer(self, computer_reference):

slapos/tests/test_util.py

@@ -191,17 +191,20 @@ class TestUtil(unittest.TestCase):
 """
 
   xml2dict1_dict = {
-    "_": {
-      "param1": "value1",
-      "param2_dict": {
-          "param2_param1": "",
-          "param2_param2_dict": {},
-          "param2_param3_dict": {"param": "value"}
-      }
+    "_": str('''{
+    "param1": "value1",
+    "param2_dict": {
+        "param2_param1": "",
+        "param2_param2_dict": {},
+        "param2_param3_dict": {
+            "param": "value"
+        }
     }
+}''')
   }
 
   def test_xml2dict1(self):
+    self.maxDiff = None
     self.assertEqual(
       self.xml2dict1_dict,
       slapos.util.xml2dict(self.xml2dict1_xml)

slapos/util.py

@@ -33,7 +33,6 @@ import socket
 import struct
 import subprocess
 import sqlite3
-import json
 from xml_marshaller.xml_marshaller import dumps, loads
 from lxml import etree
 import six
@@ -163,22 +162,14 @@ else:
 
 def dict2xml(dictionary):
   instance = etree.Element('instance')
-  if len(dictionary) == 1 and '_' in dictionary:
+  for k, v in sorted(six.iteritems(dictionary)):
+    if isinstance(k, bytes):
+      k = k.decode('utf-8')
+    if isinstance(v, bytes):
+      v = v.decode('utf-8')
+    elif not isinstance(v, six.text_type):
+      v = str(v)
     etree.SubElement(instance, "parameter",
-            attrib={'id': '_'}).text = json.dumps(
-                    dictionary['_'],
-                    separators=(',', ': '),
-                    sort_keys=True,
-                    indent=4)
-  else:
-    for k, v in sorted(six.iteritems(dictionary)):
-      if isinstance(k, bytes):
-        k = k.decode('utf-8')
-      if isinstance(v, bytes):
-        v = v.decode('utf-8')
-      elif not isinstance(v, six.text_type):
-        v = str(v)
-      etree.SubElement(instance, "parameter",
                      attrib={'id': k}).text = v
   return bytes2str(etree.tostring(instance,
                    pretty_print=True,
@@ -198,8 +189,6 @@ def xml2dict(xml):
       else:
         value = element.text
       result_dict[key] = value
-  if len(result_dict) == 1 and '_' in result_dict:
-    result_dict['_'] = json.loads(result_dict['_'])
   return result_dict