Adding boolify() as validator.

routersploit/test/test_validators.py

@@ -80,6 +80,61 @@ def test_address_strip_scheme_2(self):
         address = "ftp://127.0.0.1"
         self.assertEqual(validators.address(address), "127.0.0.1")
 
+    def test_boolify_false_1(self):
+        value = False
+        self.assertEqual(validators.boolify(value), False)
+
+    def test_boolify_false_2(self):
+        value = "No"
+        self.assertEqual(validators.boolify(value), False)
+
+    def test_boolify_false_3(self):
+        value = "n"
+        self.assertEqual(validators.boolify(value), False)
+
+    def test_boolify_false_4(self):
+        value = "OFF"
+        self.assertEqual(validators.boolify(value), False)
+
+    def test_boolify_false_5(self):
+        value = "0"
+        self.assertEqual(validators.boolify(value), False)
+
+    def test_boolify_false_6(self):
+        value = "False"
+        self.assertEqual(validators.boolify(value), False)
+
+    def test_boolify_false_7(self):
+        value = "f"
+        self.assertEqual(validators.boolify(value), False)
+
+    def test_boolify_true_1(self):
+        value = True
+        self.assertEqual(validators.boolify(value), True)
+
+    def test_boolify_true_2(self):
+        value = "Yes"
+        self.assertEqual(validators.boolify(value), True)
+
+    def test_boolify_true_3(self):
+        value = "y"
+        self.assertEqual(validators.boolify(value), True)
+
+    def test_boolify_true_4(self):
+        value = "oN"
+        self.assertEqual(validators.boolify(value), True)
+
+    def test_boolify_true_5(self):
+        value = "1"
+        self.assertEqual(validators.boolify(value), True)
+
+    def test_boolify_true_6(self):
+        value = "tRuE"
+        self.assertEqual(validators.boolify(value), True)
+
+    def test_boolify_true_7(self):
+        value = "t"
+        self.assertEqual(validators.boolify(value), True)
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     unittest.main()

routersploit/validators.py

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import socket
 import urlparse
+from distutils.util import strtobool
 
 from .exceptions import OptionValidationError
 
@@ -37,3 +38,20 @@ def ipv4(address):
         raise OptionValidationError("Option have to be valid IP address.")
 
     return address
+
+
+def boolify(value):
+    """ Function that will translate common strings into bool values
+
+    True -> "True", "t", "yes", "y", "on", "1"
+    False -> any other string
+
+    Objects other than string will be transformed using built-in bool() function.
+    """
+    if isinstance(value, basestring):
+        try:
+            return bool(strtobool(value))
+        except ValueError:
+            return False
+    else:
+        return bool(value)