AWS's API gateway does some black magic to perfectly mess up our JSON data. That's why we need this parse_valuer to save the world.
It parse_values a source string to a Python dictionary. Format of the source string is defined below.
- The source string begins with a '{', leading white spaces are allowed.
- Each '{' has an enclosing '}', otherwise the source string is malformed.
- Two data types are allowed:
- Strings are specified by a sequence of raw characters.
- Objects are specified by a pair of '{' and '}'.
- Elements of an object is specified by this format:
key=value. - Elements of an object is split by ',', a trailing ',' after the last element is allowed:
{key1=value1, key2=value2,}.
For example, this is a valid source string:
{
product1={
id=gold1,
price=13,
items={
items1=sword,
items2=axe
}
},
product2={
id=gold2,
price=26
}
}