Check the length of flavor name in "flavor-create"

Fixes bug 1102280
The length of flavor name is defined 255 charaters in database.
But flavor name can be more than 255 characters when a flavor
is created. This patch adds the length check of flavor name.

Change-Id: If9db879e5f6340594b215b057a29d03c6fef1503

1 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/nova/utils.py b/nova/utils.py
index 7ad810504..57f9433df 100644
--- a/nova/utils.py
+++ b/nova/utils.py
@@ -1341,3 +1341,25 @@ class ExceptionHelper(object):
             except rpc_common.ClientException, e:
                 raise (e._exc_info[1], None, e._exc_info[2])
         return wrapper
+
+
+def check_string_length(value, name, min_length=0, max_length=None):
+    """Check the length of specified string
+    :param value: the value of the string
+    :param name: the name of the string
+    :param min_length: the min_length of the string
+    :param max_length: the max_length of the string
+    """
+    if not isinstance(value, basestring):
+        msg = _("%s is not a string or unicode") % name
+        raise exception.InvalidInput(message=msg)
+
+    if  len(value) < min_length:
+        msg = _("%(name)s has less than %(min_length)s "
+                    "characters.") % locals()
+        raise exception.InvalidInput(message=msg)
+
+    if max_length and len(value) > max_length:
+        msg = _("%(name)s has more than %(max_length)s "
+                    "characters.") % locals()
+        raise exception.InvalidInput(message=msg)