This is in preparation to take deeper dict constructs from the command
line. You can feed the optionslist directly constructed of type
"identkeyval" to it and it returns a fully deflated dict.

This is mainly needed for the resource model changes where we have to
modify the disk_state which is a 3 level dict:

disk_type/name:disk_reserved=10g

Signed-off-by: René Nussbaumer <rn@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Hanselmann <hansmi@google.com>

Useful for converting list of query fields to a dictionary and to
convert RPC definitions. Includes duplicate detection.

Signed-off-by: Michael Hanselmann <hansmi@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Iustin Pop <iustin@google.com>

Signed-off-by: René Nussbaumer <rn@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Hanselmann <hansmi@google.com>

Add a function that joins two dictionaries, enforcing the constraint
that the two key sets should be disjoint. Also, add unit tests for this
function.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Spadaccini <spadaccio@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Hanselmann <hansmi@google.com>

Signed-off-by: René Nussbaumer <rn@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Iustin Pop <iustin@google.com>

The ability to split a string into a list of strings and integers can be
handy elsewhere and is necessary for sorting query results by names.

Signed-off-by: Michael Hanselmann <hansmi@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Iustin Pop <iustin@google.com>
(cherry picked from commit f47941f8)

The ability to split a string into a list of strings and integers can be
handy elsewhere and is necessary for sorting query results by names.

Signed-off-by: Michael Hanselmann <hansmi@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Iustin Pop <iustin@google.com>

Signed-off-by: Michael Hanselmann <hansmi@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Iustin Pop <iustin@google.com>

Signed-off-by: Michael Hanselmann <hansmi@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Iustin Pop <iustin@google.com>