OK, fix docs to make it clear that only the string 'true' is allowed for boolean headers. Add False-hood unit tests as well.

doc/source/glanceapi.rst

@@ -308,8 +308,7 @@ The list of metadata headers that Glance accepts are listed below.
 
   This header is optional.
 
-  When present, Glance converts the value of the header to a boolean value,
+  When Glance finds the string "true" (case-insensitive), the image is marked as
-  so "on, 1, true" are all true values. When true, the image is marked as
   a public image, meaning that any user may view its metadata and may read
   the disk image from Glance.
 

glance/utils.py

@@ -99,16 +99,14 @@ def get_image_meta_from_headers(response):
 
 def bool_from_header_value(value):
     """
-    Returns True if value is any of ('True', 'On', '1'),
+    Returns True if value is a boolean True or the
-    case-insensitive
+    string 'true', case-insensitive, False otherwise
     """
-    if type(value) == type(bool):
+    if isinstance(value, bool):
         return value
     elif isinstance(value, (basestring, unicode)):
-        if str(value).lower() in ('true', 'on', '1'):
+        if str(value).lower() == 'true':
             return True
-    elif type(value) == type(int):
-        return bool(value)
     return False
 
 

tests/unit/test_utils.py

@@ -73,10 +73,7 @@ class TestUtils(unittest.TestCase):
         """
         fixtures = [{'is_public': True},
                     {'is_public': 'True'},
-                    {'is_public': 'true'},
+                    {'is_public': 'true'}]
-                    {'is_public': 'On'},
-                    {'is_public': 1},
-                    {'is_public': '1'}]
 
         expected = {'is_public': True}
 
@@ -91,3 +88,21 @@ class TestUtils(unittest.TestCase):
             result = utils.get_image_meta_from_headers(response)
             for k, v in expected.items():
                 self.assertEqual(v, result[k])
+
+        # Ensure False for other values...
+        fixtures = [{'is_public': False},
+                    {'is_public': 'Off'},
+                    {'is_public': 'on'},
+                    {'is_public': '1'},
+                    {'is_public': 'False'}]
+
+        expected = {'is_public': False}
+
+        for fixture in fixtures:
+            headers = utils.image_meta_to_http_headers(fixture)
+
+            response = FakeResponse()
+            response.headers = headers
+            result = utils.get_image_meta_from_headers(response)
+            for k, v in expected.items():
+                self.assertEqual(v, result[k])