This patch simplifies the process for validating the request body for
POST and PUT requests and preparing it for dispatching to plugins.
In particular it removes the need for parsing the URL to find the
resource identifier, and instead leverages Pecan's routing engine
to extract it. As a result the attribute population hook now simply
deals with request body validation, and has been renamed accordingly.
The logic for loading the current state of the object from the plugin
in order to enforce authZ policy on PUT requests has been moved to
the appropriate hook, PolicyEnforcementHook.
The logic for managing plural/singular names for resource has also been
improved, and two helper functions to retrieve a resource's attributes
have been added to neutron.api.v2.attributes
The logic for aborting requests with unsupported HTTP methods has also
been moved to the REST controllers. It used to be in PolicyEnforcementHook,
which was probably not the right thing to do.
This patch also unskips a functional test concerning ownership checks,
and add functional tests for verifying correct request processing.
Unit tests for the newly added helper functions are also provided.