12684: Remove custom retry logic from PySDK

[arvados.git] / sdk / python / arvados / util.py

diff --git a/sdk/python/arvados/util.py b/sdk/python/arvados/util.py
index c383d529e8087da579fcf4ae6814f76a57044e29..a4b7e64a05e2c74b8c330bb5b66f76d9974aeab7 100644 (file)
--- a/sdk/python/arvados/util.py
+++ b/sdk/python/arvados/util.py
@@ -500,3 +500,20 @@ def get_vocabulary_once(svc):
     if not hasattr(svc, '_cached_vocabulary'):
         svc._cached_vocabulary = svc.vocabularies().get().execute()
     return svc._cached_vocabulary
+
+def trim_name(collectionname):
+    """
+    trim_name takes a record name (collection name, project name, etc)
+    and trims it to fit the 255 character name limit, with additional
+    space for the timestamp added by ensure_unique_name, by removing
+    excess characters from the middle and inserting an ellipse
+    """
+
+    max_name_len = 254 - 28
+
+    if len(collectionname) > max_name_len:
+        over = len(collectionname) - max_name_len
+        split = int(max_name_len/2)
+        collectionname = collectionname[0:split] + "…" + collectionname[split+over:]
+
+    return collectionname