Nadav Har'El 6e1344eb4f alternator: better error handling for wrongly-encoded numbers ...

In the DynamoDB API, a number is encoded in JSON requests as something
like: {"N": "123"} - the type is "N" and the value "123". Note that the
value of the number is encoded as a string, because the floating-point
range and accuracy of DynamoDB differs from what various JSON libraries
may support.

We have a function unwrap_number() which supported the value of the
number being encoded as an actual number, not a string. But we should
NOT support this case - DynamoDB doesn't. In this patch we add a test
that confirms that DynamoDB doesn't, and remove the unnecessary case
from unwrap_number(). The unnecessary case also had a FIXME, so it's
a good opportunity to get rid of a FIXME.

When writing the test, I noticed that the error which DynamoDB returns
in this case is SerializionException instead of the more usual
ValidationException. I don't know why, but let's also change the error
type in this patch.

Signed-off-by: Nadav Har'El <nyh@scylladb.com>
Message-Id: <20211115125738.197099-1-nyh@scylladb.com>

2021-11-15 14:47:49 +01:00

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