def get_boolean_value()

in packages/autorest.python/autorest/jsonrpc/__init__.py [0:0]

• 13 lines of code
• 5 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

    def get_boolean_value(self, key: str, default: Optional[bool] = None) -> Optional[bool]:
        """Check if value is present on the line, and interpret it as bool if it was.

        If value is not not on the line, return the "default".
        If the value is present, will also accept "true" or 1 as True.

        For autorest, empty dict means "it was on the line", so we want it to true.

        :returns: A boolean if it was present, or None if not
        :rtype: Optional[bool]
        """
        result = self.get_value(key)
        if result is None:
            return default
        if result == {}:  # autorest received --myoption
            return True
        if isinstance(result, bool):
            return result
        # Try as a string
        try:
            return result.lower() == "true"
        except AttributeError:  # not a string
            pass
        return result == 1