def _get_error_reason()

in cartography/intel/gcp/compute.py [0:0]

• 10 lines of code
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def _get_error_reason(http_error):
    """
    Helper function to get an error reason out of the googleapiclient's HttpError object
    This function copies the structure of
    https://github.com/googleapis/google-api-python-client/blob/1d2e240a74d2bc0074dffbc57cf7d62b8146cb82/
                                  googleapiclient/http.py#L111
    At the moment this is the best way we know of to extract the HTTP failure reason.
    Additionally, see https://github.com/googleapis/google-api-python-client/issues/662.
    :param http_error: The googleapi HttpError object
    :return: The error reason as a string
    """
    try:
        data = json.loads(http_error.content.decode('utf-8'))
        if isinstance(data, dict):
            reason = data['error']['errors'][0]['reason']
        else:
            reason = data[0]['error']['errors']['reason']
    except (UnicodeDecodeError, ValueError, KeyError):
        return ''
    return reason